; Italian: Associazione degli Italiani di Romania – RO.AS.IT.)
is an ethnic minority political party in Romania representing the Italian community of the country.
It is supported by the Department of Interethnic Relations and the Italian Embassy in Bucharest.
[1] It contested the 1996 general elections, but was beaten by the Italian Community of Romania (CIR), which retained the seat reserved for the Italian community in the Chamber of Deputies under the electoral law allowing political parties representing ethnic minority groups to be exempt from the electoral threshold only applied as long as they received 10% of the vote required for a single seat in the Chamber of Deputies.
[2][3] The party contested the 2000 elections as part of the Italian Community of Romania,[4] but ran separately in the 2004 elections and beat the CIR by 987 votes to win the Italian seat, with Mircea Grosaru becoming the party's MP.