LEGE no. 68 68 of 15 July 1992-(* updated *) for the election of the Chamber of Deputies ((updated until 06 July 2004 *)
ISSUER
PARLIAMENT
---------- The Romanian Parliament adopts this law + Chapter 1 General provisions + Article 1 The Chamber of Deputies and the Senate shall be elected by universal, equal, direct, secret and freely expressed vote, under the conditions of this law + Article 2 The voter is entitled to a vote to elect the Chamber of Deputies and a vote to elect the Senate. + Article 3 (1) Deputies and senators shall be elected in electoral constituencies on the basis of list and independent applications, according to the principle of proportional representation. ... (2) The norm of representation for the election of the Chamber of Deputies is one MP per 70,000 inhabitants ... (3) The rule of representation for the election of the Senate is one senator to 160,000 inhabitants. ... (4) The number of deputies and senators to be elected shall be determined by reporting the number of inhabitants of each electoral district to the norms of representation provided in par. (2) and (3), plus a seat of deputy or senator for what exceeds the half of the norm of representation, without the number of deputies being less than 4, and that of senators less than 2. ... (5) The number of inhabitants to be taken into account, according to par. (4), is the one from July 1 of the previous year, published in the Statistical Yearbook of Romania. If, at least 5 months before the election date, a general census of the population takes place, the number of inhabitants to be taken into account is the one resulting from the census, published by the National Commission for Statistics. ... (6) The numbering of electoral districts and the number of deputies and senators to be elected in each electoral district are set out in Annex no. 1 which forms an integral part of this law. ... -------------- Alin. ((6) art. 3 was amended by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 63 63 of 26 May 2000 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 240 240 of 31 May 2000, as amended by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 129 129 of 30 June 2000 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 311 311 of 5 July 2000. + Article 4 (1) The organizations of citizens belonging to a national minority, legally constituted, who have not obtained in elections at least one term of deputy or senator, have the right, together, according to art. 59 59 para. (2) of the Constitution, at a mandate of deputy, if they obtained, throughout the country, a number of votes equal to at least 5% of the average number of valid votes cast per country for the election of a deputy. ... (2) The organizations of citizens belonging to national minorities participating in elections are legally equivalent, in terms of electoral operations, with political parties. ... (3) Benefit from the provisions of par. (1) and citizens ' organizations belonging to national minorities who participated in the elections on the common list of these organizations; in this case, if no candidate on the common list was elected, it will be assigned to all organizations that proposed a mandate of MP, in compliance with the provisions of par. ((1). ... (4) The provisions of par. (3) does not apply to the organization of citizens belonging to national minorities who participated in elections on the common list with a party or other political party or both on common lists, according to par. ((3), as well as on their own exclusive lists. ... (5) The mandate of MP assigned according to par. ((1) or (3) the total number of deputies resulting from the representation norm shall be granted. ... + Article 5 (1) Candidates for the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate shall be proposed on separate lists of candidates only by political parties, their alliances and other political parties, constituted according to the law, as well as by electoral alliances constituted in conditions of this law ... (2) The number of candidates on each list may be higher than the number of mandates resulting from the norm of representation by two to a quarter of these mandates; the factions shall be completed by the figure 1. ... (3) In the same electoral district a party, political party or their alliance may propose, for each of the Houses of Parliament, only one list of candidates. Party alliances and political parties can only be made at national level. Political parties and parties from political alliances can participate in elections only on alliance lists. ... A political party or party can only be part of a single political alliance. (4) The lists of candidates must include, as the case may be, the political affiliation of the candidates. ... (5) The independent candidate may participate in individual elections and if supported by at least 0.5% of the total number of voters registered in the permanent lists of localities located in the electoral district in which he is running. Independent applications are not admitted on the lists of candidates submitted by parties, political parties or their alliances, nor lists of independent candidates. ... (6) A person may apply for either a term of office of deputy or a term of office of a senator and only in one electoral district. ... ((7) Candidates on several lists of candidates or both on the lists and as independently, are void. ... (8) The organizations of citizens belonging to national minorities may opt to submit, by derogation from the provisions of par. ((3), (6) and (7), the same list of candidates for the Chamber of Deputies in several electoral districts. ... --------------- Article 5 was amended by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 129 129 of 30 June 2000 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 311 of July 5, 2000 by replacing the phrase "political coalition" or "electoral coalition" with the "political alliance". Alin. ((1) art. 5 was amended by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 154 154 of 10 October 2000 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 498 498 of 11 October 2000. Alin. ((8) art. 5 was introduced by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 165 165 of 13 October 2000 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 514 514 of 19 October 2000. + Article 5 ^ 1 (1) Political parties and political alliances may associate with each other only at national level, on the basis of protocol, constituting an electoral alliance, in order to participate in the election of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate. ... (2) The protocol establishing the electoral alliance shall be submitted to the Central Electoral Office within 48 hours of its establishment. ... (3) The Central Electoral Bureau shall rule in public sitting on the admission or rejection of the protocol establishing the electoral alliance, within 24 hours of its submission. ... (4) The decision of the Central Electoral Office for the admission of the protocol establishing the electoral alliance may be challenged by any natural or legal person interested in the Supreme Court of Justice within 24 hours of delivery. ... (5) The decision of the Central Electoral Bureau to reject the protocol establishing the electoral alliance may be challenged by it at the Supreme Court of Justice within 24 hours after the ruling. ... (6) The Supreme Court of Justice shall rule on the appeals provided in par. ((4) and (5) within 24 hours, by irrevocable decision. ... (7) The other provisions of this law relating to political alliances shall also apply accordingly to electoral alliances. ... --------------- Art. 5 ^ 1 was introduced by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 154 154 of 10 October 2000 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 498 498 of 11 October 2000. + Article 6 (1) The date of the elections shall be established and brought to public knowledge by the Government at least 45 days before the voting day and until the 5th day from the date on which the deadline provided for in art begins to run. 60 60 para. (2) of the Constitution. ... (2) Elections take place in one day, which may only be on Sunday. ... (3) The order number of the elections in the voter card shall be established and brought to public knowledge by the Government, with the date of elections. ... (4) Bringing to public knowledge is made through the Official Gazette of Romania and the press. ... -------------- Alin. ((1) art. 6 was amended by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 140 140 of 14 September 2000 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 467 467 of 26 September 2000. + Chapter 2 Voter rolls and voter cards + Section 1 Electoral lists + Article 7 Electoral lists include citizens with the right to vote. They are permanent or special. + Article 8 (1) The permanent electoral lists shall be established by localities and shall include all citizens with the right to vote who reside in the locality for which the lists were drawn up. Romanian citizens residing abroad can be registered, at their request, in the permanent electoral lists of the locality where they were born or in which they had the last domicile in the country. The application shall be submitted to the diplomatic mission of Romania from the state in which it resides or directly to the county service of record of population ... (2) The permanent electoral lists shall be drawn up by the Community public services of record of persons, under the coordination and control of the National Inspectorate for the Records of Persons. ... (3) The permanent electoral lists shall be drawn up for communes, on villages, and for cities, municipalities and administrative-territorial subdivisions of the municipalities, on the streets. ... (4) The permanent electoral lists will necessarily include, in the order of the number of buildings in which the voters live, the name and surname, the personal numerical code, the domicile, number and series of the identity document, as well as the number electoral district. ... (5) The permanent electoral lists shall be drawn up in two official copies, shall be signed by the head of the Community public service of record of persons and mayor. A copy will be handed over, for storage, on the basis of minutes, to the city hall, and the other, to the court in whose territorial area is the locality for which they were drawn up. The permanent special lists shall be kept in special registers with detachable tabs. ... ((6) Abrogat. ... ------------- Alin. ((1)-(5) of art. 8 were amended by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 63 63 of 26 May 2000 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 240 240 of 31 May 2000. Alin. ((6) art. 8 was repealed by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 63 63 of 26 May 2000 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 240 240 of 31 May 2000. Alin. ((2) and (5) of art. 8 were amended by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 50 50 of 15 June 2004 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 595 595 of 1 July 2004. + Article 9 (1) Community public records of persons shall update the permanent electoral lists drawn up in accordance with art. 8, under the control and coordination of the National Inspectorate for the Records of Persons, and communicates them to the city hall and the judge no later than 15 days from the date of establishment of the voting day ... (2) The deceased persons shall be removed from the electoral list on the basis of the communication of the local public service to which the death was recorded, within 24 hours from the registration, to the county service of record of the population from the last home of deceased person. ... (3) Persons who have lost their Romanian citizenship shall be removed from the electoral list, on the basis of the Ministry of Justice ... (4) Persons who have lost electoral rights shall be removed from the electoral list, pursuant to the communication of the court to the county service of record of the population to which the locality in which the person concerned is aronded domicile. ... ------------- Alin. ((1), (2) and (4) of art. 9 were amended by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 63 63 of 26 May 2000 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 240 240 of 31 May 2000. Alin. ((1) art. 9 was amended by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 50 50 of 15 June 2004 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 595 595 of 1 July 2004. + Article 10 (1) Each voter shall be entered in a single permanent electoral list. ... (2) The registration in the permanent electoral lists is mandatory. The change of a person's domicile will also be operated properly in the permanent electoral list by the population record formation at the new home. ... ------------- Alin. ((2) art. 10 was amended by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 63 63 of 26 May 2000 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 240 240 of 31 May 2000. + Article 11 The special electoral lists shall be drawn up in the cases provided by this law and shall include the name and surname, personal numerical code, domicile, series and number of identity document of the voter. The lists shall be signed by the chairman of the electoral bureau of the polling station where they were ------------- Article 11 was amended by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 63 63 of 26 May 2000 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 240 240 of 31 May 2000. + Article 12 (1) Voters have the right to check the registration in the electoral lists Meetings against omissions, misentries and any errors in the lists shall be submitted to the mayor, who shall immediately transmit them to the authorities who have drawn up the lists. They are required to rule no later than 3 days after registration. ... (2) An appeal may be filed against the given solution within 24 hours of the communication. The appeal shall be settled in no more than 3 days by the court in whose territorial area the voter resides or, in the case of those registered in special lists, by the court in whose territorial area the electoral office of the polling station is located which compiled the list. The court decision is final, enforceable and communicated to those interested within 24 hours of the ruling. ... ((3) The entries made with regard to the special lists abroad shall be settled by the head of the diplomatic mission or its replacement. Appeals against the provisions given by the head of the diplomatic mission or its replacement shall be submitted to the headquarters of the mission and shall be sent for resolution to the Court of District 1 of the city of Bucharest, (2) by applying accordingly. ... ------------- Alin. ((1) and (2) of art. 12 were amended by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 63 63 of 26 May 2000 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 240 240 of 31 May 2000. + Article 13 (1) At the request of the parties to record the population in whose territorial area of competence the locality is located, the mayors will transmit the necessary information in order to determine precisely the home address of the citizens who live in villages, on renumbered streets or on streets whose name has been modified by decision of the local council. ... (2) The mayors will carry out children from the permanent electoral lists comprising the voters from each polling station, which they will submit, in two copies, to the electoral bureaus of the polling stations, within 24 hours of the establishment to them. One copy will be made available to voters for consultation and the other will be used on Election Day. ... (3) The population record formation will transmit to the mayor, within 24 hours, the changes after sending the children from the electoral lists, who will communicate them immediately to the judge and the electoral bureau of the polling station. ... ------------- Article 13 was amended by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 63 63 of 26 May 2000 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 240 240 of 31 May 2000. + Article 13 ^ 1 The model of permanent electoral lists, of the special list, as well as their expenses for printing them shall be established by Government decision. ------------- Art. 13 ^ 1 was introduced by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 63 63 of 26 May 2000 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 240 240 of 31 May 2000. + Section 2 Voter cards + Article 14 (1) The exercise of the right to vote shall be made on the basis of the voter card, issued under the present law. Romanian citizens abroad can also vote without a voter card, based on the diplomatic, service, simple or consular passport, on which the stamp with the mention "Voted" will be applied by the president of the polling station, with the stipulation of the day and the month in which the vote took place. ... (2) The Ministry of Administration and Interior shall submit to the Government's approval the form, content, manner of release and use of the voter card, as well as the expenses of printing and distributing them, based on the proposals received from the services Community public record of persons. ... (3) A voter can only receive one voter card. ... ------------- Alin. ((1) and (2) of art. 14 were amended by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 63 63 of 26 May 2000 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 240 240 of 31 May 2000. Alin. ((1) art. 14 was amended by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 212 212 of 21 November 2000 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 594 594 of 22 November 2000. Alin. ((2) art. 14 was amended by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 50 50 of 15 June 2004 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 595 595 of 1 July 2004. + Article 15 (1) The voter cards shall be valid for all electoral consultations, according to the number of elections provided for in their contents, and shall be issued to voters registered in the permanent electoral lists of the locality in which they reside. ... (. The voter's book shall be kept and shall be used only by the holder. ... ------------- Alin. ((1) art. 15 was amended by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 63 63 of 26 May 2000 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 240 240 of 31 May 2000. + Article 16 (1) The voter cards shall be drawn up by the Community public services of record of the persons to whom the localities in which their voters are domiciled. ... (2) The release of the voter card shall be made on the basis of the identity document, only to the holder and under his signature, by the Community public service of record of persons. ... ((3) Abrogat. ... (4) After updating the permanent electoral lists according to art. 9 9 para. (1) the preparation and issuance of voter cards for citizens who have reached the age of 18 years until January or who will fulfill this age until the day of elections inclusive shall be made according to the provisions of par. ((1), (2) and (3). ... (5) Intimings and appeals regarding the preparation or issuance of voter cards shall be made in compliance with the provisions of art. 12 12, which shall apply accordingly. ... (6) The records of voter cards shall be provided by the Community public services together with the Ministry of Administration and the Interior. ... ------------ Alin. ((1)-(4) and (6) of art. 16 were amended by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 63 63 of 26 May 2000 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 240 240 of 31 May 2000. Alin. ((3) art. 16 was amended by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 140 140 of 14 September 2000 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 467 467 of 26 September 2000, repealed by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 212 212 of 21 November 2000 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 594 594 of 22 November 2000. Alin. ((2) art. 16 was amended by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 212 212 of 21 November 2000 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 594 594 of 22 November 2000. Alin. ((1), (2) and (6) of art. 16 were amended by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 50 50 of 15 June 2004 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 595 595 of 1 July 2004. + Article 17 (1) In case of loss or destruction of the voter card a duplicate may be issued by the authorities provided in art. 16 16 para. (2), which will make the appropriate mention in the permanent electoral list of the locality. ... (. The release of the duplicate shall be made at the request of the holder and on its responsibility. The original declared lost or destroyed is null and void. ... ------------ Alin. ((1) art. 17 was amended by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 63 63 of 26 May 2000 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 240 240 of 31 May 2000. + Chapter 3 Polling stations + Article 18 (1) The voting stations shall be organized in localities, as follows: ... a) in localities with population of over 2,000 inhabitants, one polling station at 1,000-2,000 inhabitants; ... b) in communes with population under 2,000 inhabitants, one polling station. ... (2) The polling stations may also be organized in villages or groups of villages with population up to 1,000 inhabitants, located at a distance of more than 5 km from the polling station headquarters in the commune's residence. ... + Article 19 (1) In addition to military units, as well as hospitals, maternity wards, sanatoriums, invalids houses and old people's homes, having at least 50 voters, separate polling stations can be organized. ... (2) You can also organize polling stations in railway stations, in bus stations, in ports and airports, for voters who, on election day, are during a trip. ... (3) For students from day courses and for students with voting rights who do not reside in the locality where the studies follow, a polling station is organized by students or students, for 500-2,000 voters. ... (4) At the polling stations organized by the military units vote only the soldiers of these units, and in those for students and students, only students and students from the arondate educational units. ... + Article 20 (1) In addition to the diplomatic missions and consular offices of Romania, a polling station is organized for the voters members of these representatives and their families, as well as for Romanian citizens from the country or abroad located in the On Election Day. These polling stations belong to the electoral district of Bucharest. ... (2) On the Romanian-flagged ships, in navigation on the day of the elections, polling stations will be organized, which are part of the electoral district of the place where the ship is registered. ... + Article 21 Voters vote for both the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate at the same polling station. + Article 22 (1) Delimitation of polling stations shall be established by the mayors of communes, towns, municipalities or administrative-territorial subdivisions of the municipalities and shall be communicated to the prefect. Within 3 days from the establishment of the election date the mayors will communicate to the prefect the latest changes regarding the delimitation of polling stations. ... (2) The prefects are obliged to make the numbering of all polling stations within the county and to communicate to the county service of record the numbering population, as well as the delimitation of each polling station. ... Within 5 days from the establishment of the election date the prefects will communicate to the county service of record the last changes regarding the delimitation of polling stations and their numbering. Within 10 days from the establishment of the election date the prefects will bring to public attention the numbering, as well as the delimitation of each polling station, indicating the place where the voting will take place. (3) All polling stations in an electoral district shall be numbered, regardless of localities, starting with the locality of residence of the county and continuing with those from the municipalities, other cities and then from the communes, in the alphabetical order of to them; in the municipalities with administrative-territorial subdivisions the numbering is done in compliance with the order of these subdivisions, provided by law. ... (4) The mayors and secretaries of the communes, cities, municipalities and administrative-territorial subdivisions of the municipalities shall ensure all the data, information and support necessary for the fulfilment by the prefects of the obligations provided for in para. ((2). ... ------------ Article 22 was amended by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 63 63 of 26 May 2000 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 240 240 of 31 May 2000. Alin. ((4) art. 22 was amended by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 140 140 of 14 September 2000 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 467 467 of 26 September 2000. + Chapter 4 Permanent Electoral Authority and electoral bureaus ------------ Title Head. 4 4 was amended by LAW no. 286 286 of 27 June 2003 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 473 473 of 2 July 2003. + Article 23 (1) In order to ensure the logistical conditions necessary for the application of the legal provisions regarding the exercise of the right to vote, as well as the corresponding conditions for the smooth conduct of electoral operations, the Permanent Electoral Authority. For the organization and conduct of each electoral campaign and each election, the Central Electoral Office, electoral district electoral offices and electoral bureaus of polling stations are organized. ... (2) The electoral bodies referred to in par. (1) are made up of citizens with the right to vote. Candidates cannot be president or vice-presidents of the Permanent Electoral Authority nor members of electoral bureaus. ... (3) In carrying out the duties of the electoral bodies, their members shall exercise a function involving the state authority. The correct and impartial exercise of the membership function of electoral bodies is mandatory. Failure to comply with the obligation shall ... ------------ Article 23 was amended by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 63 63 of 26 May 2000 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 240 240 of 31 May 2000. Article 23 was amended by LAW no. 286 286 of 27 June 2003 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 473 473 of 2 July 2003. + Article 23 ^ 1 (1) The Permanent Electoral Authority is an autonomous administrative institution, with general competence, which ensures, at national level, the unitary application, in the interval between two electoral periods, of the legal provisions regarding the organization and the conduct of elections, pursues and supports the endowment with the necessary logistics, as well as the realization of specific operations, in the interval between two ... (2) Within the meaning of the present law, the electoral period is the time period starting on the date of public knowledge of the election date and ending with the official communication of the outcome of the elections. The electoral period includes the electoral campaign, the effective conduct of voting, the centralization of votes, the establishment of the voting result, the attribution of mandates and the publication of the election result in the Official Gazette ... (3) The Permanent Electoral Authority is headed by a President, with the rank of Secretary of State, appointed by joint decision of the Senate and of the Chamber of Deputies between personalities with training and experience in the legal or administrative field. ... (4) The president is helped by 2 vice presidents, with the rank of undersecretary of state, one appointed by the President of Romania, and the other by the Prime Minister. ... (5) The President and Vice-Presidents may not be members of a political party. ... (6) The mandate of the President and the mandates of the Vice-Presidents of the Permanent Electoral Authority shall be 8 years and may be renewed. ... (7) The President and the Vice-Presidents may be removed from office, for thorough reasons, by the authorities who appointed them. ... (8) The current and capital expenditures of the Permanent Electoral Authority shall be ensured from the state budget. ... ------------- Art. 23 ^ 1 was introduced by LAW no. 286 286 of 27 June 2003 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 473 473 of 2 July 2003. + Article 23 ^ 2 (1) The Permanent Electoral Authority has its own specialized apparatus. ... (2) The organization and functioning of the personal apparatus of the Permanent Electoral Authority, the number of posts, the staff status, its attributions and the organizational structure shall be established by the organization and functioning regulations, approved by Government decision. ... (3) The Permanent Electoral Authority may have working branches in each of the development regions. The establishment of the working branches, the number of posts, their duties and their relations with the Permanent Electoral Authority shall be established by the regulation on its organization and functioning. ... (4) The salary of personnel from the specialized apparatus of the Permanent Electoral Authority shall be established by law. ... ------------- Art. 23 ^ 2 was introduced by LAW no. 286 286 of 27 June 2003 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 473 473 of 2 July 2003. + Article 23 ^ 3 The Permanent Electoral Authority shall submit annually to Parliament a report on its activity. ------------- Art. 23 ^ 3 was introduced by LAW no. 286 286 of 27 June 2003 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 473 473 of 2 July 2003. + Article 23 ^ 4 (1) The Permanent Electoral Authority shall exercise the following tasks in the interval between two electoral periods: ... a) develop proposals on ensuring the necessary logistics for the conduct of elections and follow the implementation of the proposals; ... b) pursues the identification of the premises of the polling stations and the offices of the electoral bureaus; ... c) pursues and ensures the timely realization of the facilities specific to the polling stations: typified urns and cabins, stamps, tusiere, containers for the transport of ballots and the like; ... d) pursues the way of ensuring the funds necessary to achieve staggered, in advance, the necessary logistics; ... e) develop systems for the protection of polling stations, ballot papers and other documents specific to the electoral process; ... f) monitors and controls the preparation, updating and keeping of registers including permanent electoral lists, as well as the way of carrying out the communications provided by law; ... g) aims to prepare and issue voter cards, in accordance with the electoral lists; ... h) pursues and controls the way of ensuring the consistency between the content of the permanent electoral lists kept at the local councils and the existing copy of the judges; ... i) ensure, within the limits of its competences, the uniform application of the legal provisions regarding the organization of elections; ... j) develop studies and proposals aimed at improving the electoral system, which it releases and presents to public authorities, political parties, as well as non-governmental organizations concerned; ... k) public, within 3 months from the conclusion, as the case may be, of the parliamentary, presidential or local elections, a White Paper that will include an analysis of the elections, aimed at the participation in elections, the conduct of elections, the deviations found and election result; ... l) elaborates programs of information and training of voters on the Romanian electoral system and on the observance of electoral deontology and ensures their popularization; ... m) elaborates specific training programs for the secretaries of administrative-territorial units, pursues and organizes these programs; ... n) develop programs and establish uniform rules on the exercise of voting by non-book or disabled persons and ensure their popularization; ... o) elaborates the draft own budget, which will be approved by the state budget law; ... p) compiles the list of specialized personnel certified by the National Institute of Statistics, which will participate in the centralization, processing of data and the finding of election results; ... q) organizes and provides the material basis for the information system at national level, in order to establish the results of elections ... r) organizes auctions for the selection of computer programs that will be used by the Central Electoral Office to centralize voting results; ... s) elaborates and submits to the Government for approval the timing of the actions during the ... s) elaborates and submits to the Government for approval the draft decisions specific to the good organization and conduct of elections; ... t) elaborates proposals to improve and improve the Romanian electoral system, which it submits to the Government to acquire and exercise the right of legislative initiative; ... t) submit to the Government for approval the budget of the electoral period; the budget will be approved no later than 5 days after the public meeting of the election day; ... u) certifies for unchanged, 10 days before the date of elections, the computer programs selected following the tender organized according to the legal provisions in force and provides them with the parties registered in the electoral competition, at their request. ... (2) The Permanent Electoral Authority shall perform any other duties provided by law. ... ------------- Art. 23 ^ 4 was introduced by LAW no. 286 286 of 27 June 2003 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 473 473 of 2 July 2003. + Article 24 (1) The Central Electoral Bureau is composed of 7 judges of the Supreme Court of Justice, the chairman of the Permanent Electoral Authority and 15 representatives of political parties and their alliances, who participate in elections. ... (1 ^ 1) The working apparatus of the Permanent Electoral Authority will support the Central Electoral Office in carrying out its duties and the activities it carries out during the electoral period. (2) The appointment of the 7 judges is made in public session, within 5 days from the establishment of the election date, by drawing lots, by the President of the Supreme Court of Justice, of all the acting judges of the Court. The result of the draw is recorded in a minutes, signed by the president and the chief consultant of the Supreme Court of Justice, which constitutes the act of investiture. The date of the hearing is made public by the press, by the president of the Supreme Court of Justice, at least 48 hours before. ... (3) Within 24 hours after the inauguration, the appointed judges shall elect, from their turn, by secret ballot, the chairman of the Central Electoral Bureau. In this organization, the Central Electoral Office will perform all its duties according to this law, and will be filled with representatives of parties, political parties and their alliances. ... (4) Within 2 days from the date until which applications may be submitted, parties, political parties and their alliances participating in the elections shall communicate, in writing, to the Central Electoral Bureau, the number of lists of candidates from all constituencies, as well as the names and names of the representatives. Communications submitted after that period shall no longer be taken into account. ... (5) The appointment of representatives of parties, political parties or their alliances in the Central Electoral Office shall be made in descending order of the number of lists of candidates communicated by each party, political party or alliance of them, according to par. (4), in the number of electoral districts across the country. A party, political party or their alliance cannot have more than 5 representatives. ... (6) Persons who have the status of representatives of a party, political party or their alliance in the Central Electoral Office shall be established in the order mentioned in the communication provided in par. ((4). ... (7) If several parties, political parties or their alliances have submitted the same number of lists, the appointment of their representatives will be made, by lot, by the President of the Central Electoral Bureau, in the presence of persons delegated by the parties, political parties or alliances concerned. ... (8) The completion of the Central Electoral Office with representatives of parties, political parties and their alliances shall be made, within 24 hours from the expiry of the deadline provided in par. (4), by the President of the Central Electoral Office, assisted by 3 judges, in the presence of persons delegated by the parties, political parties and their alliances who communicated the representatives. The minutes drawn up by the president on how to establish the representatives constitute the act of attestation of their quality of members in the Central Electoral Bureau. ... -------------- Art. 24 was amended by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 129 129 of 30 June 2000 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 311 of July 5, 2000 by replacing the phrase "political coalition" or "electoral coalition" with the "political alliance". Alin. ((1) art. 24 24 was amended by LAW no. 286 286 of 27 June 2003 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 473 473 of 2 July 2003. Alin. ((1 ^ 1) art. 24 24 was introduced by LAW no. 286 286 of 27 June 2003 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 473 473 of 2 July 2003. + Article 25 (1) The Central Electoral Office has the following tasks: ... a) watch over the updating of permanent electoral lists, follow the application of legal provisions regarding elections throughout the country and ensure their uniform interpretation; ... b) resolve the events regarding his/her own activity and appeals regarding the operations of the constituency electoral bureaus; ... c) receives from the constituency electoral offices the minutes comprising the number of valid votes cast for each list of candidates and ascertains whether there are parties, political parties or their alliances that have not met the electoral threshold provided in art. 65 65 para. ((2); communicate to the constituency electoral bureaus and release, within 24 hours from the finding, the parties, political parties or their alliances that are in this situation; ... d) verify and record the result of the elections, summed up the unused votes for each party, political party or their alliance that meets the condition provided in lett. c) and ensures the centralized distribution and conduct on electoral constituencies of the mandates due to them; ... e) attests the attribution of a mandate of deputy to the organization of citizens belonging to national minorities that met the conditions provided by 4 and issue the proof certificate of the MP designated on this basis; ... f) annuls the elections from an electoral district if the voting and the establishment of the election result took place by fraud such as to modify the attribution of mandates and order the repetition of the elections; ... f ^ 1) transmit to the Permanent Electoral Authority, after the publication of the results of the elections in the Official Gazette of Romania, Part I, the materials necessary for the drafting of the White Paper g) meets any other obligations under this law. ... (2) If, in order to resolve an appeal, checks are necessary in fact, they shall be carried out in the presence of a judge from the Central Electoral Office. Such checks cannot be done on Election Day. ... (3) The request for annulment of elections from an electoral district can be made only by parties, political parties, their alliances or independent candidates who participated in the elections, within 48 hours after the end of voting, under penalty of decay. The application must be reasoned and accompanied by the evidence on which it is based The application may be granted only if the person concerned is not involved in the production of the fraud. Provisions of para. ((2) shall apply accordingly. The resolution of the request by the Central Electoral Bureau is made by the date of publication of the election result in the Official Gazette ... (4) The decisions of the Central Electoral Bureau shall be brought to the public meeting. ... ------------- Letter c) a par. ((1) art. 25 was amended by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 129 129 of 30 June 2000 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 311 311 of 5 July 2000. Letter a) a par. ((1) art. 25 was amended by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 140 140 of 14 September 2000 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 467 467 of 26 September 2000. Article 25 was amended by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 129 129 of 30 June 2000 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 311 of July 5, 2000 by replacing the phrase "political coalition" or "electoral coalition" with the "political alliance". Letter f ^ 1) a par. ((1) art. 25 was introduced by LAW no. 286 286 of 27 June 2003 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 473 473 of 2 July 2003. + Article 26 (1) The electoral district office shall consist of 3 judges and of no more than 8 representatives of parties, political parties or their alliances participating in elections in the electoral district in which the electoral office operates. ... (2) The appointment of the 3 judges shall be made in public session, within 5 days from the date of the election, by the president of the tribunal, by drawing lots, of the acting judges of the county court or of the Tribunal Bucharest. The date of the meeting is brought to public attention, through the press, by the president of the tribunal, at least 48 hours before. The result of the draw is recorded in a minutes, signed by the president, which constitutes the act of investiture. Within 24 hours of the designation, the judges, by secret ballot, elect the president of the constituency electoral office. The office thus constituted performs all its duties according to the present law, being filled with representatives of parties, political parties or their alliances participating in elections. ... (3) Within 2 days from the date until which the applications may be submitted, the parties, political parties and their alliances will communicate, in writing, to the constituency electoral bureaus, the number of applications on the lists of candidates submitted in that electoral district, as well as the surnames and names of the representatives Communications submitted after that period shall no longer be taken into account. ... (4) The appointment of representatives of parties, political parties and their alliances in the constituency electoral office shall be made in descending order of the number of candidates, communicated by each party, political party or alliance of them, according to par. ((3), in the total number of candidates from the communications received. A party, political party or their alliance cannot have more than 3 representatives. ... (5) The completion of the electoral office with representatives of parties, political parties or their alliances shall be made according to the provisions of art. 24 24 para. ((6) and (8), which shall apply accordingly. If several parties, political parties or their alliances have submitted the same number of candidates, the appointment of the representatives will be made by lot, by the president of the constituency electoral office, in the presence of delegations of parties, political parties or alliances concerned. ... --------------- Article 26 was amended by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 129 129 of 30 June 2000 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 311 of July 5, 2000 by replacing the phrase "political coalition" or "electoral coalition" with the "political alliance". + Article 27 (1) The constituency electoral bureaus shall have the following tasks: ... a) follow the application of legal provisions regarding elections in the electoral district in which they operate, watch the organization, in advance, of polling stations; ... b) register the submitted applications and find their final stay; ... c) make the publications and displays provided by law on the lists of candidates and independent applications; ... d) resolve the meetings regarding their own activity and appeals regarding the operations of the electoral bureaus of the polling stations or, as the case may be, the electoral offices, within the electoral district in which they operate; ... e) share, together with the mayors, the electoral bureaus of polling stations the ballots, the control stamp and the stamps with the mention "Voted". The constituency electoral office of the city of Bucharest distributes these materials to the electoral offices; ... f) totals the result of the elections at the polling stations and communicates to the Central Electoral Office the minutes containing the number of valid votes cast for each list of candidates. The electoral district office of the city of Bucharest totals the result of the elections sent from the electoral offices and communicates to the Central Electoral Office the minutes containing the number of valid votes cast for each list of candidates; ... g) based on the finding of the Central Electoral Bureau on parties, political parties or their alliances that do not meet the electoral threshold provided for in art. 65 65 para. (2) ascertains the outcome of the elections for the electoral district and shall issue to the deputies or, as the case may be, the senators ... h) submit to the Central Electoral Office the minutes comprising the election result, as well as the meetings, appeals and minutes received from the electoral bureaus of the polling stations, and in Bucharest from the offices electoral; ... i) perform any other duties incumbent on them according to the law. ... (2) The decisions of the electoral office shall be brought to the public meeting. ... ------------- Points d), e), f) and h) of par. ((1) art. 27 were amended by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 63 63 of 26 May 2000 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 240 240 of 31 May 2000. Article 27 was amended by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 129 129 of 30 June 2000 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 311 of July 5, 2000 by replacing the phrase "political coalition" or "electoral coalition" with the "political alliance". Points f) and g) of par. ((1) art. 27 were amended by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 140 140 of 14 September 2000 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 467 467 of 26 September 2000. + Article 27 ^ 1 (1) The electoral offices shall be composed of a president, a deputy of the latter and of no more than 7 members, representatives of political parties or alliances participating in elections in the electoral district in which they operate. ... (2) The president and the deputy are magistrates, appointed by the president of the Bucharest Tribunal 20 days before the election date, by drawing lots, of the acting judges of the tribunal. Art. 28 28 para. ((6), (7), (8), (9), (10) and (11) shall apply accordingly. ... ------------- Art. 27 ^ 1 was introduced by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 63 63 of 26 May 2000 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 240 240 of 31 May 2000. + Article 27 ^ 2 The electoral offices of the sectors of Bucharest have the following tasks: a) receive the ballots, stamp of control and stamp with the mention "Voted" from the constituency electoral office of the city of Bucharest and distribute these materials, together with the mayors, electoral bureaus of polling stations; ... b) totals the result of the elections at the polling stations and communicates to the constituency electoral office of the city of Bucharest the minutes including the number of valid votes cast for each list of candidates; ... c) resolve the encounterments regarding their own activity and appeals regarding the operations of the electoral bureaus of the polling stations; ... d) submit to the constituency electoral office the minutes comprising the outcome of the elections, as well as the meetings, appeals and minutes received from the electoral bureaus of the polling stations. ... ------------- Art. 27 ^ 2 was introduced by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 63 63 of 26 May 2000 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 240 240 of 31 May 2000. Letter a) a art. 27 ^ 2 was amended by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 140 140 of 14 September 2000 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 467 467 of 26 September 2000. + Article 28 (1) The electoral bureaus of the polling stations shall be composed of a president, a deputy of the latter and no more than 7 members. ... (2) The president and the deputy are, as a rule, magistrates or other jurists, who are not part of any party or political party, appointed by the president of the county court or of the city of Bucharest, 15 days before the date elections, by drawing lots from a list drawn up by the prefects and communicated by them to the president of the tribunal at least 5 days before the draw. ... (3) If the number of jurists is insufficient, the list will be completed with other persons who have a non-irate reputation and who are not part of any party or political party. ... (4) The list proposed by the prefect will include a number of persons with 10% more than necessary, which is available to the president of the tribunal; the list will contain: first name, names, addresses, phones and signatures of acceptance of proposed persons. ... (5) The grouping in the list of persons, in order to draw lots, will be made in view of the need for their dwellings to be as close as possible to the headquarters of the electoral bureau of the polling station. ... (6) The electoral bureaus of polling stations shall be constituted on the date of designation of their members. ... (7) The members of the electoral bureaus of the polling stations come from a representative of the parties, political parties and their alliances participating in the elections, in descending order of the number of candidates proposed in the constituency that election. ... (8) For this purpose, the president of the constituency electoral office will communicate to the presidents of the electoral bureaus of polling stations, within 24 hours of their appointment, according to par. (2), the number of candidates proposed by each party, political party and their alliance. Also, the parties, political parties and their alliances are obliged to communicate, each, to the president of the electoral bureau of the polling station, in the same term, the first name and the name of their representative. ... (9) If two or more parties, political parties or their alliances have the same number of candidates, their representatives shall be part of the electoral bureau of the polling station, within the limits of seats not occupied by party representatives, political parties and their alliances, according to par. (7), in a more favorable situation; if by applying this provision it is not possible for all representatives to be included in the composition of the electoral office, its president will proceed to the draw, in compliance with the provisions of art. 26 26 para. ((5), which shall apply accordingly. ... (10) If parties, political parties or their alliances have not nominated their representatives or the number of representatives is insufficient, the completion of electoral bureaus of polling stations shall be made by the president of the on the list provided in par. ((4), by drawing lots. ... (11) The appointment of the members of the electoral bureau of the polling station shall be made by its president, based on the communications provided in par. (8) or, where applicable, the provisions of par. (9), through a minutes, covering the manner of establishment of representatives, shall constitute the act of attestation of their quality of members in the electoral office of the polling station; the preparation of the minutes shall be made within 24 hours from the expiry of the term provided in (8), with the participation of parties, political parties and their alliances concerned, if they have sent, for this purpose, a delegate. ... -------------- Article 28 was amended by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 129 129 of 30 June 2000 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 311 of July 5, 2000 by replacing the phrase "political coalition" or "electoral coalition" with the "political alliance". + Article 29 Electoral bureaus of polling stations shall have the following tasks: a) receive the copy of the lists communicated, according to art. 13 13 para. (2), and unclaimed voter books, according to art. 16 16 para. (3), and from the constituency electoral offices, the ballots for the voters who are to vote at the polling station, the control stamp and the stamps with the mention "Voted". In the city of Bucharest the ballots, the control stamp and the stamps with the mention "Voted" receive them from the electoral offices; ... b) conduct the voting operations, take all the order measures at the polling station and around it; ... c) count the votes and record the voting results; ... d) resolve the events concerning their own activity; ... e) submit to the constituency electoral bureaus or, as the case may be, to the electoral offices the minutes comprising the voting result, together with the appeals filed and with the materials to which they refer; ... f) I teach, with minutes, the court in whose territorial area they have their headquarters, the ballots used and unchallenged, as well as those cancelled, the stamps and the other materials necessary for voting; the special electoral lists at the The military units shall be transmitted, under military guard, to these units and shall be kept by the commander of the unit. ... ------------ Letters a) and e) of art. 29 were amended by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 63 63 of 26 May 2000 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 240 240 of 31 May 2000. + Article 30 The offices and electoral offices work in the presence of the majority of their members and take decisions with the vote of the majority ------------ Article 30 was amended by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 63 63 of 26 May 2000 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 240 240 of 31 May 2000. + Article 31 Representatives of parties, political parties or their alliances in electoral offices cannot receive other credentials provided by this law. ------------- Art. 31 was amended by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 129 129 of 30 June 2000 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 311 of July 5, 2000 by replacing the phrase "political coalition" or "electoral coalition" with the "political alliance". + Article 32 (1) Parties and political alliances participating in elections, as well as independent candidates may contest the training and composition of offices and electoral offices no later than 48 hours after the expiration of the term of establishment or, as the case may be, supplementing these offices and electoral offices. ... (2) Appeals shall be settled by the constituency electoral office, if they concern the electoral bureau of the polling station, the Central Electoral Office, if they concern the constituency electoral office or the Supreme Court of Justice, if they concern Central Electoral Office, no later than two days after registration. The judgment given is final. In Bucharest the appeals are settled by the electoral office, if they concern the electoral office of the polling station and the constituency electoral office, if they concern the electoral offices. ... -------------- Article 32 was amended by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 63 63 of 26 May 2000 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 240 240 of 31 May 2000. + Chapter 5 Applications + Article 33 (1) The candidates ' proposals shall be made on electoral constituencies and shall be submitted to the constituency electoral offices, at the latest 30 days before the election date. ... (2) The candidates ' proposals shall be made in writing, in 4 copies, by the parties or political parties participating in the elections, under the signature of their management or of the persons designated to sign them, and in the case of independent candidates, based on the supporters list. ... (3) The list of supporters must include the election date, the first name and the name of the candidate, the first name and the name, the date of birth, the address, the series, the number of the identity document and the signature of the supporters, ... (4) The list of supporters constitutes a public act, with all the consequences provided by law. ... ((5) Proponents may only be citizens with the right to vote. ... (6) A supporter may support only one candidate for the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate. ... (7) The actions of the supporters shall be given on their own responsibility. ... (8) Proposition of candidates referred to in par. (2) must include the first name, name, domicile, place and date of birth, occupation, profession of the candidate and will be accompanied by the declaration of acceptance of the candidacy, written, signed and dated by the candidate. ... (9) The declaration of acceptance shall include the surname, name, political affiliation, profession and occupation of the candidate, his express consent to run, as well as the stipulation that he meets the conditions provided by law to run. ... + Article 34 (1) The persons who, at the time of submission of the application, do not meet the conditions provided by art. 35 of the Constitution to be elected. ... (2) Also, prefects and sub-prefects cannot run in electoral districts constituted in administrative-territorial units in which they exercise their functions after the official start date of the electoral campaign. ... (3) The President of Romania, if elected senator or deputy, is obliged, until the date of validation, to opt between the quality of parliamentarian or the president. ... ------------- Alin. ((2) art. 34 was amended by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 129 129 of 30 June 2000 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 311 311 of 5 July 2000, as amended by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 140 140 of 14 September 2000 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 467 467 of 26 September 2000. + Article 35 (1) The constituency electoral office shall examine compliance with the legal conditions for a person to be able to run and register the applications that meet these conditions. ... (2) Two copies of the candidacy proposal shall be kept at the constituency electoral office, another shall be registered at the courthouse in whose territorial area the electoral district is, and the fourth, office certificate, shall be returned Depositor. ... + Article 36 (1) Pina on the 20th day before the election date, citizens, parties and other political parties may contest the applications. ... (2) For this purpose, within 24 hours from the registration of the application, one of the copies of the candidacy proposal shall be displayed by the constituency electoral office, at its headquarters. ... (3) Appeals regarding the registration or rejection of applications shall be settled by the tribunal in whose territorial area is the electoral district, no later than 2 days after the receipt of the appeal. The decision is not communicated. ... (4) Against the decision given in the appeal can be appealed, within 24 hours from the ruling, to the higher hierarchical court. The appeal shall be settled within 2 days of registration. ... (5) The Appeals shall include the surname and the name, address and quality of the objector, the surname and the name of the candidate, the exposure of the grounds of the appeal, the date and signature of the objector and the indication, if any, of the person designated to represent. ... (6) The appeal and the application for appeal shall be submitted to the competent court, under penalty of nullity. ... (7) After the expiry of the deadlines provided in par. (1), (3) and (4), the constituency electoral bureaus shall ascertain, on the basis of minutes, the final stay of the applications, shall display, at their headquarters, the final applications and shall have the printing of the ballots. ... + Chapter 6 Ballot papers + Article 37 The ballots will be printed and the stamps necessary for voting will be carried out in compliance with the models set out in Annex no. 3. + Article 38 (1) The dimensions of the ballot shall be determined by the constituency electoral office, taking into account the number of candidate lists and independent candidates and the space required for their printing. ... (2) The paper for the ballot will be white and thick enough not to distinguish on the reverse the printed name and the given vote. ... (3) On the pages of the ballot paper will be printed patrollers, in sufficient number to include all applications, apart from the last page, which will remain white, for the control stamp; the pages are numbered. ... (4) The voting bulletins shall be captured. ... ((5) The squares will be printed parallel to each other, two columns on the same page. ... (6) In the angle on the upper left side of the quadrilateral shall be printed the name of the party, political party or their alliance participating in elections or, as the case may be, the mention "Independent candidate", and in the angle on the top right, electoral sign. ... (7) In the patrols of each ballot paper will be printed the lists of candidates in the order resulting from the draw, carried out by the constituency electoral office; the candidates shall be identified on the list by first name and name and, as the case may be, by political membership. ... (8) For each independent candidate a distinct quadrilateral shall be printed, in the final part of the bulletin, in order to register the proposals. ... -------------- Article 38 was amended by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 129 129 of 30 June 2000 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 311 of July 5, 2000 by replacing the phrase "political coalition" or "electoral coalition" with the "political alliance". + Article 39 (1) The electoral signs shall be established by each party, political party or their alliance or independent candidate and shall be communicated to the Central Electoral Office within 3 days of its establishment. ... (1 ^ 1) The electoral signs communicated to the Central Electoral Office must be clearly distinguished from the previously recorded ones, being forbidden to use the same graphic symbols, whatever the geometric figure in which they are framed. Parties and political alliances can use, as an electoral sign, the permanent sign with which they entered the Bucharest Court. (1 ^ 2) Electoral signs cannot reproduce or combine the national symbols of the Romanian state, other states, international bodies or religious cults. Except for political parties that are members of international political organizations, they can use the sign of the respective organization as such or in a specific combination. (2) The electoral signs used in the previous elections may not be used by other parties, political parties, their alliances or independent candidates except with the consent of those to whom they belonged, respectively of the parties that have Original alliance. ... (3) If the same electoral sign is requested by several parties, political parties or their alliances or independent candidates, the award will be made for the benefit of the party, political party, their alliance or the independent candidate who registered the first sign, and in case of concurrent registration or impossibility to determine the priority, by drawing lots, by the President of the Central Electoral Bureau, within 24 hours of at the expiry of the term provided in ((1). ... ((3 ^ 1) Appeals regarding the registration of electoral signs shall be submitted within 24 hours from the expiry of the term provided in par. (1) and shall be settled by the Bucharest Court no later than two days after the receipt of appeals. The judgment shall not be communicated to Art. 36 36 para. ((4)-(6) shall apply accordingly. The final and irrevocable decision shall be communicated immediately to the Central Electoral Office. (4) Electoral signs may not be contrary to the rule of law. ... (5) The Central Electoral Office shall ensure the public knowledge of the electoral signs the day after the expiry of the term provided in par. ((1) or, as the case may be, after the final and irrevocable stay of the judgment. ... -------------- Article 39 was amended by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 129 129 of 30 June 2000 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 311 of July 5, 2000 by replacing the phrase "political coalition" or "electoral coalition" with the "political alliance". Alin. ((1 ^ 1) and (1 ^ 2) of art. 39 were introduced by LAW no. 286 286 of 27 June 2003 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 473 473 of 2 July 2003. Alin. ((3 ^ 1) art. 39 39 was introduced by LAW no. 286 286 of 27 June 2003 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 473 473 of 2 July 2003. Alin. ((5) art. 39 39 was amended by LAW no. 286 286 of 27 June 2003 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 473 473 of 2 July 2003. + Article 40 The alliance of parties, which participated in the previous elections under a name, can only keep it if it has not changed its original component. That name may also not be used by another alliance. -------------- Article 40 was amended by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 129 129 of 30 June 2000 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 311 of July 5, 2000 by replacing the phrase "political coalition" or "electoral coalition" with the "political alliance". + Article 41 (1) For the entire electoral district, the ballots will be printed in letters of the same size and the same characters and with the same ink, in so many copies read voters are in the constituency, with a supplement of 10%. ... (2) The printing of ballot papers shall be provided by district electoral bureaus, by means of prefects. The prefects respond that all necessary ballots should be printed at least 3 days before the election date. ... -------------- Alin. ((2) art. 41 was amended by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 140 140 of 14 September 2000 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 467 467 of 26 September 2000. + Article 42 (1) The voting bulletins shall be handed over to the president of the constituency electoral office, who will distribute to the chairmen of the electoral bureaus of polling stations at least one day before the election date. In Bucharest, the president of the constituency electoral office distributes, at least two days before the election date, the ballots of the presidents of the electoral offices, who will hand over to the presidents of the electoral bureaus of polling stations at least one day before the election date. The handing over and distribution of the bulletins are made in sealed packages of 100 pieces, based on minutes. ... (2) As many as two copies of the ballots, targeted and annulled by the president of the constituency electoral office, will be displayed in the presence of elections at the headquarters of the courts, as well as at the headquarters of each polling station. ... -------------- Alin. ((1) art. 42 was amended by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 63 63 of 26 May 2000 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 240 240 of 31 May 2000. Art. 42 was amended by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 140 140 of 14 September 2000 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 467 467 of 26 September 2000. + Article 43 At the request of parties, political parties, their alliances or independent candidates participating in the elections, the constituency electoral office will issue, for each, 2 ballots, targeted and cancelled. -------------- Art. 43 was amended by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 129 129 of 30 June 2000 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 311 of July 5, 2000 by replacing the phrase "political coalition" or "electoral coalition" with the "political alliance". + Chapter 7 Electoral campaign + Article 44 (1) The electoral campaign begins on the date of public knowledge of the election date and ends 2 days before the voting day. ... (2) In the electoral campaign, candidates, parties, political parties, all social organizations and citizens have the right to express their opinions freely and without any discrimination, through rallies, gatherings, the use of television, radio, the press and other media. ... (3) The means used in the electoral campaign cannot contravene the law order. ... (4) Any commercial advertising process by the press or means of audiovisual communication for the purpose of electoral propaganda is prohibited. ... (5) It is forbidden to organize electoral campaign actions in military units. ... + Article 45 Repealed. -------------- Article 45 was amended by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 129 129 of 30 June 2000 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 311 of July 5, 2000 by replacing the phrase "political coalition" or "electoral coalition" with the "political alliance". Article 45 was repealed by LAW no. 43 43 of 21 January 2003 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 54 54 of 30 January 2003. + Article 46 ((1) Access to public radio and television services, within the electoral campaign, is guaranteed, under the conditions of this Article. ... (2) The parties, political parties and independent candidates represented in Parliament have access to public radio and television services, subsidized from the state budget. The rest of the parties, political parties and independent candidates will have access to the respective services on the basis of contracts concluded between the corresponding institutions of the Romanian Radio and the financial trustees who represents, practicing single rates per unit of airtime. ... (3) The parties and political parties participating in the elections are obliged to request, within 48 hours from the date of establishment of the voting day, the management of public radio and television services, the granting of antenna times. Requests beyond this deadline shall not be taken into account. ... (4) The schedule for the electoral campaign and the distribution of the antenna times shall be established by a special parliamentary committee, together with representatives of public radio and television services, no later than 5 days after the opening of the electoral campaign. The distribution will be considered as the antenna times for the political parties and parties represented in the Parliament, under the conditions of par. (2), be 2 times higher than for the other parties and political parties and correspond to the parliamentary weight. ... (5) After the end of the application period will be made, according to par. (4), a new timetable and a new distribution of antenna times, proportional to the number of lists of candidates submitted throughout the country. Parties, political parties or their alliances, which have not submitted lists of candidates in at least 10 electoral districts, lose the right to antenna times at the central radio and television stations. Proof of submission of applications will be made with certificate issued by the constituency electoral office. ... (6) Independent candidates may exercise their right to an antenna time only once, between 5 minutes and one hour, equally, depending on the schedule set and their number. ... (7) The interviews, reports and other such audiovisual services of general interest to inform citizens shall not be included in the right to time. ... ---------------- Article 46 was amended by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 129 129 of 30 June 2000 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 311 of July 5, 2000 by replacing the phrase "political coalition" or "electoral coalition" with the "political alliance". + Article 47 (1) Mayors are obliged, within 5 days from the start of the electoral campaign, to establish special places for electoral display, taking into account the number of parties, political parties and their alliances who declare that they will submit lists of candidates and people who say they will run for elections as independents. ... ((2) The mayors will ensure that the special places of display are located in the squares, on the streets and in other public places frequented by citizens, without the stinjenation of traffic on public roads and other activities in the respective localities. In advance, the mayors are obliged to ensure the removal of any posters, documents and insignia remaining from the previous electoral campaigns. ... (3) The use of electoral display places is allowed only for parties, political parties or their alliances participating in elections and for independent candidates. ... (4) It is forbidden to use by a party, political party, their alliance or independent candidate of special electoral display places so that they prevent their use by another party, political party, alliance of or independent candidate. ... (5) In places other than those established according to par. (1), the electoral display is allowed only with the consent of the owners or, as the case may be, the holders ... (6) On an electoral panel each party, political party, their alliance or independent candidate may apply a single electoral poster. ... (7) An electoral poster may not exceed the dimensions of 500 mm one side and 300 mm the other side, and the one by which an electoral meeting is convened, 400 mm one side and 250 mm the other side. ... (8) The electoral posters that combine the colors thus incite to evoke the flag of Romania or another state are prohibited. ... (9) The police are obliged to ensure the integrity of the panels and electoral posters. ... -------------- Article 47 was amended by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 129 129 of 30 June 2000 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 311 of July 5, 2000 by replacing the phrase "political coalition" or "electoral coalition" with the "political alliance". + Article 48 (1) The district electoral bureaus shall ensure that the electoral campaign is properly conducted in the constituency in which it operates, resolving the complaints addressed to them regarding the prevention of a party, political party, alliance of or independent candidate to carry out his electoral campaign under the conditions provided by law and in compliance with electoral deontology. ... (2) If the constituency electoral office considers, on the occasion of the settlement of the complaint, that administrative measures or the application of contravention or criminal sanctions are necessary, the competent authorities shall notify the competent authorities. ... (3) Against the solution given by the constituency electoral office can be appealed to the Central Electoral Office; the solution given on the appeal is final. ... (4) The settlement of complaints and appeals shall be made within 3 days from their registration, and the decisions given shall be published in the press and shall be displayed, visibly, at the headquarters of the electoral office that issued them. ... -------------- Article 48 was amended by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 129 129 of 30 June 2000 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 311 of July 5, 2000 by replacing the phrase "political coalition" or "electoral coalition" with the "political alliance". + Chapter 8 Conduct of voting + Article 49 (1) Each polling station must possess a sufficient number of cabins, urns and polling stamps in proportion to the number of voters on the lists communicated by mayors. ... ((2) The cabins and the boxes must be placed in the same room where the office of the president is located. The cabins, urns, stamps and other materials necessary for the electoral bureau of the polling station will be provided by the mayors of the communes, cities, municipalities and administrative-territorial subdivisions of the municipalities, together with prefects. ... (3) The stamps and other materials necessary for the electoral bureaus of the polling stations shall be handed over on the basis of minutes by the mayors, together with the chairpersons of the constituency electoral bureaus or, as the case may be, of the electoral offices, the presidents of the polling stations at least one day before the election date. After taking over the ballots and stamps the president of the polling station ensures their preservation in complete safety. ... (4) The forms and other printed forms necessary for voting shall be handed over to the electoral bureau of the polling station on the basis of delivery-receipt borderou, including the number of copies of each printed matter. ... (5) The chairman of the electoral bureau of the polling station must be present at the polling station headquarters on the eve of the election day, at 18,00, being obliged to take, immediately, the necessary measures to ensure order and correctness voting operations. ... (6) The President will order the fixing of the guard posts around the voting place. ... ------------- Alin. ((3) art. 49 was amended by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 63 63 of 26 May 2000 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 240 240 of 31 May 2000, as amended by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 140 140 of 14 September 2000 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 467 467 of 26 September 2000. + Article 50 (1) On election day, at 6.00, the president of the electoral bureau of the polling station, in the presence of the other members, checks the polls, the existence of electoral lists, ballots and stamps, after which he closes and seals the polls, applying the control stamp of the polling station. ... (2) The President shall be obliged to ensure the application of the control stamp and on the ballot papers. ... ------------- Alin. ((1) art. 50 was amended by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 63 63 of 26 May 2000 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 240 240 of 31 May 2000. + Article 51 (1) The president of the electoral bureau of the polling station is obliged to take the necessary measures for the elections to proceed in good conditions. ... (2) His powers, in this regard, shall also lie outside the polling place, in its yard, in the entrances to the courtyard, around the voting place, as well as on streets and public squares up to a distance of 500 m. ... (3) Apart from the members of the electoral bureau of the polling station, candidates and accredited delegates, no other person can be stationed in public places in the polling area or in the voting place more than the time required for voting. ... ((4) The accreditation of the delegates for the Romanian press, cinematography, radio and television stations shall be made by the Central Electoral Office, and for the press, cinematography, radio and foreign television stations, as well as for representatives of international organizations, by the Central Electoral Bureau, with the opinion of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs The violation of the accreditation conditions entails the termination of accreditation. ... (5) Accredited delegations may assist in electoral operations only if they present the act of accreditation. They cannot intervene in any way in the organization and conduct of elections, having only the right to notify the president of the electoral office in case of finding an irregularity. Any act of propaganda for or against a party, political party, their alliance or candidate or attempt to influence the voter's operation, as well as violating in any way the act of accreditation attract the application of sanctions legal, suspension of accreditation by the electoral office that found the deviation, and on the day of voting, the immediate removal of the respective person from the polling station. ... (6) In order to maintain order, the chairman of the electoral bureau of the polling station will have the necessary means of order, provided by the prefects, together with the Ministry of Administration and Interior. ... (7) During voting, members of electoral bureaus and persons accredited to wear badges, badges or other means of electoral propaganda shall be prohibited. ... ------------ Alin. ((4) art. 51 was amended by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 63 63 of 26 May 2000 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 240 240 of 31 May 2000. Article 51 was amended by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 129 129 of 30 June 2000 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 311 of July 5, 2000 by replacing the phrase "political coalition" or "electoral coalition" with the "political alliance". Alin. ((6) of art. 51 was amended by replacing the term "Ministry of Interior" with the "Ministry of Administration and Interior" EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 50 50 of 15 June 2004 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 595 595 of 1 July 2004. + Article 52 Voting begins at 7.00 and ends at 21.00. ------------ Article 52 was amended by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 63 63 of 26 May 2000 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 240 240 of 31 May 2000. + Article 53 (1) Voters may vote at the polling station where they have their domicile or at polling stations organized according to art. 19 19 and 20. Voters who vote at the wards organized according to art. 19 and 20 enroll in special election lists. ... ((2) The voters who, on the day of voting, are in a locality other than that in which they are registered in the electoral lists, can exercise their right to vote on the basis of the voter card at any polling station, by being registered in a list special election by the electoral bureau of the polling station. ... (2 ^ 1) In the special lists will be passed the voters who show up to vote and prove with the identity document that they reside in the area aronded to the respective polling station, but they were omitted from the permanent electoral list. (3) The provisions of par. (2) shall also apply to Romanian citizens residing abroad who, on the day of voting, are in the country, based on the passport. ... ------------ Alin. ((2 ^ 1) art. 53 was introduced by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 212 212 of 21 November 2000 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 594 594 of 22 November 2000. + Article 54 (1) The access of voters to the voting hall takes place in the series corresponding to the number of Each will present the voter card and the identity document to the electoral bureau of the polling station that, after checking the registration in the electoral list or, as the case may be, the registration in the special electoral list provided for in art. 53, will entrust the ballots and the stamp for voting, based on the signature in the electoral list. If a voter presents himself with the duplicate of the voter card, the electoral bureau of the polling station will mention it in the electoral list. ... (2) Voters who raise, according to art. 16 16 para. (3), the voter card from the polling station will sign the receipt in the minutes drawn up at the handing over by mayors of unidylated voter cards. ... (3) If the voter, for reasons found by the president of the polling station office, cannot sign in the electoral list, the mention will be made in the list, with confirmation, on the basis of signature, of a member of the electoral bureau. ... ((4) Voters will vote separately in closed cabins, applying the stamp bearing the mention "Voted" inside the quadrilateral that includes the list of candidates or the surname and name of the independent candidate they vote for. ... (5) The stamp with the words "Voted" shall be so dimensioned that it is less than the quadrangle. ... (6) After voting, voters will bend the ballots, so that the white page bearing the control stamp will remain outside, and will enter them into the urn, taking care not to open. ... (7) The misrepresentation of the bulletin does not entail its nullity. ... (8) If the bulletin is opened by error, at the request of the voter shall be cancelled and only once a new bulletin shall be given, making the appropriate mention in the minutes of the voting operations. ... (9) The stamp entrusted for voting shall be returned to the President, after which he will apply it on the voter card in the place corresponding to the number of elections, mentioning the date. ... (10) The President may take measures that the stationing of a voter in the polling booth should not be unduly extended. ... -------------- Alin. ((2) and (9) of art. 54 were amended by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 63 63 of 26 May 2000 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 240 240 of 31 May 2000. + Article 55 Presidents, members of electoral bureaus of polling stations, as well as persons responsible for maintaining order, will vote in the section at which they operate, after their registration in the special electoral list provided by art. 53. + Article 56 (1) Candidates and any voter have the right to challenge the identity of the person who is voting. In this case, the identity shall be established by the President by any legal means. ... (2) If the appeal is based, the president will stop the contested voter from voting, will record the fact in a report and will refer this situation to the police authorities. ... + Article 57 (1) The chairman of the electoral bureau of the department may suspend the voting for thorough reasons. ... (. The suspension shall not exceed one hour and shall be announced by display at the door of the voting place at least one hour in advance. The total duration of the suspensions may not exceed 2 hours. ... (3) During the suspension, ballot boxes, stamps, ballots and other documents and materials of the electoral office shall remain under permanent guard, and the members of the office shall not be able to leave the voting hall all at the same time. ... (4) Persons who, based on art. 51 51 para. (3), assist in voting may not be required to leave the polling place during this time. ... + Article 58 (1) The presence of any person in the voting booths, outside the voting booth, shall be prohibited. ... (2) The voter who, for thorough reasons, found by the president of the electoral bureau of the polling station, cannot vote alone, has the right to call in the polling booth an attendant chosen by him, in order to help him. It cannot be among the observers or members of the electoral bureau of the polling station. ... + Article 59 For non-transportable voters due to illness or disability, at the request of those in this situation or of the management bodies of the health or social protection institutions in which the non-transportable are hospitalized, the president of the electoral bureau of the polling station shall designate, within the office, a number of members who travel with a special ballot box and the material necessary for voting, at the place where the voter is located, in order to carry out the voting. + Article 60 At 21.00 the president of the electoral bureau of the polling station declares the voting concluded and orders the closure of the polling station. --------------- Article 60 was amended by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 63 63 of 26 May 2000 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 240 240 of 31 May 2000. + Chapter 9 Establishment of results obtained in elections + Section 1 Finding of voting results at polling stations + Article 61 (1) After the end of the voting, the chairman of the electoral bureau of the polling station shall proceed, in the presence of the members of the office and, as the case may be, of candidates and persons accredited to assist in voting, on the inventory and sealing of stamps with the mention "Voted", as well as the counting and cancellation of the remaining ballots, when checking the seals on the ballot boxes, and after the end of these operations, at the opening of the polls. ... (2) The President, at the opening of each bulletin, will read aloud the list of candidates who was voted or, as the case may be, the first name and name of the independent candidate voted and will show the ballot to those present. The open ballots will sit on parties, political parties and their alliances, as well as independent candidates and will be counted and linked separately. ... (3) There are no ballots that did not apply on them the stamp of control of the polling station, the ballots of another model than the approved legal one, the ballots that do not have the stamp "Voted" or to which the stamp is applied on several quadrangles. The vote is also valid if, although the stamp applied has exceeded the limits of the quadrilateral, the voter's option is obvious. ... (4) Null ballot bulletins do not enter into the calculation of valid votes cast. ... (5) The voting result for the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate will be recorded in two separate tables. The tables shall be drawn up by a member of the electoral bureau of the polling station, appointed by the president. If the results are present and candidates are present, they have the right to draw up a table for each of the Houses of Parliament. ... (6) In the tables provided in par. (5) the null votes, candidate lists or surnames and names of independent candidates and valid votes cast for each shall be entered. ... --------------- Art. 61 was amended by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 129 129 of 30 June 2000 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 311 of July 5, 2000 by replacing the phrase "political coalition" or "electoral coalition" with the "political alliance". + Article 62 (1) After the opening of the polls and counting of votes the chairman of the electoral bureau of the polling station will conclude, separately for the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate, one minutes, in 3 copies, which will include: ... a) number of voters, according to permanent electoral lists; ... b) the number of voters who went to the polls; the breakdown of this number according to the voters on the permanent electoral list and the special one; ... c) the total number of valid votes cast; ... d) number of null votes; ... e) the number of valid votes cast, obtained by each candidate list or by each independent candidate; ... f) the exposure, in short, of the meetings and appeals and their way of resolution, as well as of the appeals submitted for the settlement of the constituency electoral office; ... g) the state of the seals on the ballot at the end of voting; ... h) number of ballots received; ... i) number of ballots left unmet and cancelled. ... ((2) The minutes shall be signed by the President and the members of the Office and shall have the control stamp affixed. Signatures shall be placed in the right of surname, name and, where appropriate, the political affiliation of each member. A copy of the minutes shall be displayed, in visible place, at the headquarters of the electoral bureau of the polling station. ... (3) The members of the electoral bureaus of the polling stations who signed the minutes shall be issued, upon request, a copy certified by all those who signed the original; the request must be made before the minutes are drawn up. ... (4) The lack of signature of some members of the office does not affect the validity of the minutes The president will mention the reasons that prevented the signing. ... -------------- Alin. ((1) and (2) of art. 62 were amended by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 129 129 of 30 June 2000 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 311 311 of 5 July 2000. + Article 63 (1) During the voting or opening operations of the polls, there may be events or appeals regarding these operations by candidates, members of the electoral bureau, as well as, until the end of the voting, by the voters. ... (2) Appeals shall be made in writing and shall be submitted to the chairman of the electoral bureau of the polling station, who shall issue proof of receipt. ... (3) The chairman of the electoral bureau of the polling station will decide, immediately, on appeals whose resolution does not suffer delay. ... + Article 64 (1) For the Chamber of Deputies and for the Senate, a file will be drawn up that will include the minutes and appeals regarding the electoral operations of the section, as well as the null and contested ballots. The sealed files and stamps will be submitted to the constituency electoral office or the electoral office, as the case may be, by the president of the electoral bureau of the polling station and the members of the office, with military guard, no later than 24 hours after declaration of closure of the polling station Within 24 hours of receipt of the electoral offices, the sealed files and stamps of the constituency electoral office of the city of Bucharest shall be submitted. ... (2) Within 24 hours from the receipt of the file, the constituency electoral office shall send one of the copies of the minutes to the courthouse in whose territorial area the electoral district is located; political parties and parties, as well as independent candidates will be able to get certified copies on this copy. ... -------------- Alin. ((1) art. 64 was amended by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 63 63 of 26 May 2000 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 240 240 of 31 May 2000. + Article 64 ^ 1 The electoral office, after receiving the minutes comprising the result of the counting of votes, will conclude, according to art. 62 62 para. ((1) lit. a)-f), h) and i), para. (2), (3) and (4), separately for the Chamber of Deputies and for the Senate, one minutes comprising the total valid votes cast for each party or political alliance, which it will submit within 24 hours to the electoral office of Constituency of Bucharest Municipality. -------------- Art. 64 ^ 1 was introduced by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 63 63 of 26 May 2000 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 240 240 of 31 May 2000, as amended by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 140 140 of 14 September 2000 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 467 467 of 26 September 2000. + Section 2 Establishment of voting results in electoral districts + Article 65 (1) After receiving the minutes with the result of counting the votes the constituency electoral office will conclude, separately for the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate, one minutes comprising the valid votes cast for each party, party their policy or alliance, which they will submit within 24 hours to the Central Electoral Office. ... (2) After receiving the minutes concluded by the electoral bureaus of the constituencies according to par. (1), the Central Electoral Bureau will establish the parties, political parties or their alliances that meet the electoral threshold, separately for the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate. The electoral threshold represents the minimum required number of valid votes cast for parliamentary representation, expressed as a percentage, as follows: ... a) 5% of valid votes cast across the country, for political parties or political parties; ... b) in the case of political alliances, at the threshold of 5% provided in lett. a) add, for the second party member of the political alliance, 3% of the valid votes cast across the country, and, for each member of the political alliance, starting with the third party, one percent (1%) of the valid votes expressed across the country, but not more than 10%. ... (3) After receiving from the Central Electoral Office the finding on the parties, political parties or their alliances that meet and which do not meet the electoral threshold, the constituency electoral office shall proceed with the award, under art. 66, of the mandates of deputy, respectively of senator. ... (4) In the works carried out by the constituency electoral office have the right to assist candidates and accredited persons. ... ------------- Art. 65 was amended by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 129 129 of 30 June 2000 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 311 311 of 5 July 2000. + Article 66 (1) The award of mandates for candidates on the lists shall be made in view only of parties, political parties or their alliances that have met the electoral threshold provided for in art. 65 65 para. (2), distinctly for the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate. ... (2) The operation to award the mandates shall be made after the communication of the Central Electoral Office on the parties, political parties and their alliances that met the electoral threshold provided for in art. 65 65 para. (2), distinctly for the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate. ... (3) The distribution and assignment of the mandates of deputy and senator shall be made in two stages: at the level of each electoral district and at the country level. ... (4) At the electoral district level, the electoral office shall determine, separately for the Chamber of Deputies and for the Senate, the electoral coefficient of the constituency, by dividing the total number of valid votes cast for all lists of candidates of parties, political parties and their alliances that meet the condition provided in par. (1) and for independent candidates in the number of deputies, respectively of senators, to be elected in that constituency; each list will be allocated to so many seats whenever the electoral coefficient of the electoral district includes in the valid votes cast for that list; the assignment of the mandates is made by the constituency electoral office in order to register the candidates on the list; for independent candidates it is assigned to each one a mandate, if it has obtained a number of valid votes cast at least equal to the electoral coefficient for Members or for senators, as appropriate. The remaining votes, i.e. those not used or lower than the electoral coefficient, obtained by the lists of candidates of parties, political parties and their alliances that meet the condition provided in par. (1), as well as the mandates that could not be assigned by the constituency electoral office shall be communicated by him to the Central Electoral Office, in order to be distributed centrally. ... (5) The Central Electoral Office sums up, throughout the country, separately for the Chamber of Deputies and for the Senate, the unused votes or those lower than the constituency electoral coefficient in all electoral districts, for each party, political party or their alliance that meets the condition provided in par. (1); the number of votes thus obtained by each party, political party or their alliance shall be divided by 1, 2, 3, 4, etc., making so many division operations that could not be assigned at the level of electoral districts; the citations resulting from the division, regardless of the list from which they come, shall be classified in descending order, up to the number of unassigned mandates; the lowest of these summons shall constitute the electoral coefficient per country, for Members and, separately, for the senators; each party, political party or their alliance shall be will allocate seats of deputies or, as the case may be, senators whenever the electoral coefficient per country is included in the total number of valid votes cast for the party, political party or alliance, resulting from The country's summation of unused votes and those lower than the constituency electoral coefficient. ... (6) The conduct of mandates assigned to electoral constituencies shall be made by the Central Electoral Office, as follows: ... a) for each party, political party or their alliance, to which mandates have returned according to par. (5), divide the number of unused votes or those lower than the constituency electoral coefficient, from each electoral district, to the total number of valid votes cast for that party, political party or alliance had in mind the distribution of mandates per country. ... The result thus obtained for each constituency is multiplied by the number of seats due to the party, political party or their alliance. The data obtained are ordered descending at the level of the country and separately decreasing within each constituency. For each constituency, the first parties, political parties or their alliances are taken into account, within the limits of the mandates that have remained to be distributed in that constituency. The last number of this operation represents the allocator of that constituency. Next, the distribution of mandates on constituencies in the order of parties, political parties, their alliances, as well as constituencies in the country's ordered list, as follows: the first number of the ordered list per country divide the constituency from which it comes, resulting in the number of seats incumbent on it in that constituency. Next, proceed identically with the following numbers from the ordered list per country. If the number of mandates due to a party, a political party or an alliance or an electoral district has been exhausted, the operation continues without them. If the number of the ordered list per country is smaller than the constituency party, a mandate shall be given; b) if it is not possible to grant the mandates in the order resulting from the provisions of lett. a), the Central Electoral Bureau will consider the electoral district in which the party, the political party or their alliance has the largest number of candidates or a candidate, who were not assigned seats, and if and thus remained non-individualized mandates on constituencies, the electoral district in which the party, the political party or the respective alliance has the most unused votes or the most votes below the constituency electoral coefficient; ... c) if after application of the provisions of lett. a) and b) there are still outstanding mandates on constituencies, the Central Electoral Bureau will establish them on the basis of the agreement of parties, political parties or their alliances to which these mandates are due according to par. (5), and in the absence of an agreement, by drawing lots, within 24 hours after the end of the previous operations. ... (7) The mandates carried out on the lists of candidates, according to par. (6), shall be assigned to candidates by the constituency electoral office, in order to register them on the list. ... (8) The constituency electoral office shall issue the proof certificate of the election of the deputies and senators who have been assigned seats, within 24 hours of the conclusion of each award operation. ... (9) Candidates registered in the lists, who have not been elected, shall be declared alternates of those lists. In case of holiday of the mandates of deputies or senators elected on lists of candidates, the alternates will occupy the places become vacant, in the order in which they are registered in the lists, if until the date of validation, for the filling of vacant seats, the parties or political parties on whose lists the alternates have confirmed in writing that they belong to them. ... -------------- Alin. ((1) and (2) of art. 66 were amended by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 129 129 of 30 June 2000 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 311 311 of 5 July 2000. Art. 66 was amended by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 129 129 of 30 June 2000 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 311 of July 5, 2000 by replacing the phrase "political coalition" or "electoral coalition" with the "political alliance". + Article 67 (1) The constituency electoral office shall conclude, separately, a record for the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate on all electoral operations, the centralization of votes, the finding of the election result and the attribution of mandates. ... (. The minutes shall include: ... a) the number of voters in the electoral district, according to the permanent electoral lists; ... b) the total number of voters who went to the polls; the breakdown of this number according to the voters on the permanent and special lists; ... c) the total number of valid votes cast; ... d) the total number of valid votes cast for each candidate list and for each independent candidate; ... e) number of null votes; ... f) the way of awarding the mandates, according to art. 66, the first name and the names of the chosen candidates, as well as, as the case may be, the party, the political party or their alliance ... g) mandates that could not be assigned at the level of the electoral district, as well as the valid votes cast to be summed up, according to art. 66 66, across the country; ... h) the exposure, in short, of the events, appeals and decisions taken by the constituency electoral office. ... (3) The minutes, together with the meetings, appeals and minutes received from the electoral bureaus of the polling stations and from the electoral offices, as the case may be, forming a file, concluded, sealed and signed by the members of the bureau electoral, shall be submitted, with military security, to the Central Electoral Office no later than 48 hours after the receipt of the communication of the Central Electoral Office regarding the conduct, on electoral districts, of the mandates centralized on country. ... (4) Null ballot bulletins shall be kept in complete safety, packaged, sealed and labelled, on each polling station, at the constituency electoral offices, until the validation of the election results. ... --------------- Alin. ((3) art. 67 was amended by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 63 63 of 26 May 2000 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 240 240 of 31 May 2000. Alin. ((4) art. 67 was introduced by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 212 212 of 21 November 2000 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 594 594 of 22 November 2000. Art. 67 was amended by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 129 129 of 30 June 2000 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 311 of July 5, 2000 by replacing the phrase "political coalition" or "electoral coalition" with the "political alliance". + Article 68 (1) The Central Electoral Office shall resolve the filed events and appeals, after which it concludes separately a report for the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate, comprising, throughout the country: ... a) the total number of voters according to permanent electoral lists; ... b) the total number of voters who went to the polls; ... c) the total number of valid votes cast; ... d) the total number of null votes; ... e) the finding on the application, by the constituency electoral offices, of the provisions of art. 66 66 para. ((4); ... f) the distribution per country of mandates according to art. 66 66 para. (5) and their conduct on electoral constituencies according to par. ((6) of the same Article; ... g) citizens ' organizations belonging to national minorities who, although they participated in elections, did not obtain a mandate of deputy or senator; the totality of valid votes cast for the lists of each of these organizations and the finding of the organizations to which a mandate of MP is due according to art. 4; first name and name of the first candidate on the list of the organization entitled to a mandate of deputy, which received the highest number of votes; if the lists of the organization obtained an equal number of votes, the designation is made by drawing lots; ... h) how to resolve appeals and intimations received. ... ((2) The minutes shall be signed by the President and the other members of the office in whose presence they have been drawn up and shall be submitted to the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate, with a view to validating the elections, together with the files constituency electoral. ... ((3) Abrogat. ... (4) The program used by the Central Electoral Office for the centralized distribution of mandates and their conduct on electoral districts is approved by the Central Electoral Bureau and is the annex to the minutes validation of mandates. ... -------------- Alin. ((3) art. 68 was repealed by LAW No. 115 of 16 October 1996 published in OFFICIAL GAZETTE NO. 263 of October 28, 1996. + Article 69 The Central Electoral Office publishes the results of the elections in the press and the Official Gazette of Romania, in a timely manner, in order to comply 60 60 para. (3) of the Constitution. + Chapter 10 Partial elections + Article 70 (1) In case of cancellation of elections in an electoral district, according to art. 25 25 para. ((1) lit. f), as well as if the mandate of deputy or senator become vacant cannot be occupied by the alternate, partial elections will be held. ... (2) No elections will be held if the holiday of a mandate of deputy or senator arose in the last 12 months prior to the expiration of the mandate of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate, provided by art. 60 60 para. (1) of the Constitution. ... + Article 71 (1) If the partial elections take place as a result of the annulment of elections in an electoral district, they shall be conducted on the basis of the same candidacies, electoral bureaus, electoral offices and at the same polling stations, on the 3rd Sunday after cancellation of the original ... (2) Candidates guilty of fraud no longer participate in the new election. ... (3) The partial elections organized in case of vacation of a mandate of deputy or senator shall take place under the conditions of proper application of this law, no later than 3 months after the notification of the Government by the President of the Chamber of Deputies or, after case, by the President of the Senate, regarding the meeting of the conditions provided in art. 70. ... (4) If the partial elections provided in par. (3) shall be organized in a single electoral district, shall no longer be the Central Electoral Office, its attributions shall be fulfilled by the constituency electoral office. ... (5) Only voters on the permanent electoral lists of localities within the electoral district where the elections are held participate in the partial elections. ... -------------- Alin. ((1) art. 71 was amended by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 63 63 of 26 May 2000 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 240 240 of 31 May 2000. + Chapter 11 Contraventions and penalties + Article 72 It constitutes contraventions, in so far as, according to the law, there are no crimes, the following facts a) the registration, with good science, of a voter in several electoral lists of the locality of domicile, the registration in the electoral lists of fictitious persons or who do not have the right to vote, the signing of the list of supporters in violation of the provisions regarding the display of lists of candidates and independent candidates or the use of electoral signs; ... b) unjustified refusal of release, at the written request of the interested one, of the voter card or the non-preparation of the voter card within the established deadlines; ... c) failure, by the organizers, of the measures necessary for the normal conduct of electoral assemblies, as well as the distribution and consumption of alcoholic beverages during these meetings; ... d) destruction, damage, soiling, covering by writing or in any way the electoral lists, platforms-program displayed or any other posters or advertisements of printed electoral propaganda; ... e) displaying the means of electoral propaganda in places other than those allowed or in violation of the provisions of this law; ... f) acceptance by a citizen of his registration in several lists of candidates; ... g) non-bringing to public knowledge, by the members of the constituency electoral bureaus, of the proposals for applications; ... h) refusal to allow access to the voting place of candidates or persons accredited to assist in the conduct of electoral operations; ... i) refusal to comply with the provisions of the chairman of the electoral bureau of the polling station on ensuring order in the voting place and in the surroundings; ... j) unjustified refusal to register on the voter in the special list or to hand out the ballot and voting stamp to the voter who signed in the electoral list, the inmination of the ballot of a voter who does not present the voter card and the identity document or who refuses to sign for their receipt in the electoral list in which it is registered; ... k) preparation, electoral bureaus of polling stations, minutes in violation of the provisions of this law; ... l) the continuation of electoral propaganda, including in the press, on radio or television stations, after the end of the electoral campaign, as well as the advice, on the day of voting, of voters, in the press, on radio or television stations, as well as at the headquarters of polling stations or in the places provided for in art. 51 51 para. (2), to vote or not to vote for a certain party, a certain political party, political alliance or an independent candidate; ... m) repealed; ... n) the wearing, during the voting, by the members of the polling stations offices or by accredited persons, by badges, badges or other means of electoral propaganda; ... o) violation, by members of electoral bureaus, of the obligation to participate in the activity of these offices. ... --------------- Art. 72 was amended by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 129 129 of 30 June 2000 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 311 of July 5, 2000 by replacing the phrase "political coalition" or "electoral coalition" with the "political alliance". Letter l) art. 72 was amended by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 140 140 of 14 September 2000 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 467 467 of 26 September 2000. Letter m) a art. 72 72 was repealed by LAW no. 43 43 of 21 January 2003 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 54 54 of 30 January 2003. + Article 73 The contraventions provided in art. 72 lit. d), e), h), n) and o) shall be sanctioned with a fine of 300,000 lei to 700,000 lei, those provided in lett. f), g), k), l) and m), with a fine of 700,000 lei to 2,000,000 lei, and those provided in lett. a), b), c), i) and j), with contravention imprisonment from one month to 6 months or with a fine from 2,000,000 lei to 8,000,000 lei. --------------- Art. 73 was amended by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 63 63 of 26 May 2000 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 240 240 of 31 May 2000. + Article 74 (1) Finding the contraventions provided in art. 72 is made by minutes drawn up by: ... a) the police officers and sub-officers, for the acts referred to in lett. a), b), c), d), e), g), h), i), j), l) and m); ... b) their mayors and their power of attorney, for the acts referred to in d), e) and m); ... c) the president of the constituency electoral office, for the facts provided in lett. f), k), l), n) and o). ... (2) In the case of contraventions provided in art. 72 lit. d), e), f), g), h), k), l), m), n) and o) the finding agent will determine in the minutes and the fine applied. ... (3) The provisions of the previous paragraph are applicable to the provisions of the Law no. 32/1968 * *), except art. 26. ... (4) The minutes of finding the contraventions provided in art. 72 lit. a), b), c), i), and j) will be submitted to the court in whose territorial area the contravention, which will apply the sanction, taking into account the provisions of Law no. 61/1991 61/1991. ... -------------- * *) Law no. 32/1968 has been repealed by ORDINANCE no. 2 2 of 12 July 2001 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 410 410 of 25 July 2001. + Article 75 (1) The prevention by any means of the free exercise of the right to choose or to be elected shall be punishable by imprisonment from 6 months to 5 years and the prohibition of some rights. ... (2) If, by the act provided in par. (1), an injury of bodily integrity or health that requires for healing care more than 60 days or that have produced any of the following consequences: loss of a sense or organ, cessation of their operation, a Permanent infirmity physical or mental infirmity, sluggishness, abortion or endangerment of the person's life, punishment is imprisonment from 3 to 10 years. ... (3) Attempted to the offence provided in par. ((1) and (2) shall be punished. ... + Article 76 (1) Violation by any means of the secrecy of voting by members of the electoral bureau of the polling station or other persons shall be punishable by imprisonment from 6 months to 3 years. ... (2) The attempt is punishable. ... + Article 77 (1) The promise, offering or giving of money or other benefits for the purpose of determining the voter to vote or not to vote for a given list of candidates or independent candidate, as well as their receipt by the voter, for the same purpose, shall be I'm punishing you from 6 months to 5 years. ... (2) If the act provided in par. (1) was enjoyed by an internal observer, the punishment is imprisonment from 2 to 7 years. ... (3) The punishment provided in par. (1) shall also apply to the person who votes without having the right to vote or to the voter who votes the second time or several times on election day. The attempt is punishable. ... + Article 78 (1) The use of a null voter card or a voter card or false ballot, the entry into the box of an additional number of ballots than those to which a voter is entitled or falsified by any means of documents at the electoral offices are punishable by imprisonment from 2 to 7 years. ... (2) The attempt is punishable. ... + Article 79 (1) The attack by any means on the premises of the polling station, the theft of the ballot box or electoral documents shall be punishable by imprisonment from 2 to 7 years, if the act does not constitute a more serious crime. ... (2) The attempt is punishable. ... + Article 80 The opening of the ballot box before the time set for the end of voting shall be punishable by imprisonment from 1 to 5 years. + Article 80 ^ 1 (1) The introduction into use and use of a computer program with apparent or hidden defects, which alters the recording of the results obtained in the polling stations, totals with errors or leads to the distribution of mandates outside the provisions of the law, is punishable by imprisonment from 2 to 7 years. ... (2) With the same punishment, the introduction of data, information or procedures leading to the alteration of the national information system is sanctioned. ... (3) The attempt of the crimes provided in par. ((1) and (2) shall be punished. ... ------------- Art. 80 ^ 1 was introduced by LAW no. 286 286 of 27 June 2003 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 473 473 of 2 July 2003. + Article 81 For the offences provided in art. 75-80, the criminal action is set in motion ex officio. + Article 82 Goods intended, used or resulting from the contraventions provided in art. 72 or the offences referred to in art. 75-80 seizes. + Chapter 12 Transitional and final provisions + Article 83 (1) The expenses for carrying out electoral operations shall be borne by the state budget. ... (2) The headquarters and endowment of the Central Electoral Office shall be provided by the Government, the district electoral bureaus, by the prefects and by the presidents of the county councils, respectively by the general mayor of Bucharest, and of the offices electoral, as well as the electoral bureaus of polling stations, by the mayor, together with the prefects. ... (3) Any acts made in the exercise of the electoral rights provided for in this Law shall be exempt from stamp duty. ... ------------- Alin. ((2) art. 83 was amended by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 63 63 of 26 May 2000 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 240 240 of 31 May 2000, as amended by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 140 140 of 14 September 2000 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 467 467 of 26 September 2000. + Article 84 (1) The Romanian Government will ensure, in order to support the activity of electoral bureaus, statisticians and auxiliary technical personnel ... (2) During the period of time, the electoral bureaus, their members, the statisticians and the auxiliary technical staff, assigned to the employment contract, shall be considered posted. ... + Article 85 (1) The judgment by the courts of intimacies, appeals or any other requests provided for by this law shall be made according to the rules established by law for the injunction, with the mandatory participation of the prosecutor. ... (2) Against final decisions, rendered by the courts under this law, there is no remedy. ... + Article 86 (1) The time limits, provided for by this law, shall be calculated from the day when they begin to run, until the day when they are fulfilled, even if they are not working days. ... (2) During the entire period of elections, electoral bureaus and courts shall ensure the permanent activity necessary for the exercise of electoral rights by citizens. ... + Article 87 (1) Persons sentenced by final judicial decision to the loss of electoral rights shall not participate in the vote and shall not be considered in determining the total number of voters. ... (2) For persons held on the basis of a preventive arrest warrant or in the execution of a contravention contravention sanction, the provisions of art. 59 on the special urn. ... + Article 88 (1) The prefects shall verify the correct fulfilment, by the mayors, of their obligations under this law and, in case of finding electoral frauds, notify the bodies in law. ... (2) Also, if the prefects find that in the electoral lists a voter was not registered or was not removed, according to the law, or that the constituency electoral offices, electoral offices or electoral bureaus of the sections of The voting was not legally constituted, they will formulate and appeals, which are settled in accordance with the provisions of this law. ... -------------- Alin. ((2) art. 88 was amended by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 63 63 of 26 May 2000 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 240 240 of 31 May 2000. + Article 89 (1) By way of identity, for the purposes of this law, the identity card, the provisional identity card, the identity card, the certificate holding the identity card or the diplomatic passport, service, consular or simple, and in the case of military in-term and students in military schools, military service card. ... (2) The simple passport can be used to exercise the right to vote only by Romanian citizens abroad or by Romanian citizens domiciled abroad. Romanian citizens residing in Romania who vote abroad based on the simple passport will complete a declaration on their own responsibility that they have not exercised or will exercise their right to vote on the same day on the basis of another identity document, as defined in par. ((1), or on the basis of the voter card. ... -------------- Art. 89 was amended by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 63 63 of 26 May 2000 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 240 240 of 31 May 2000, as amended by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 212 212 of 21 November 2000 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 594 594 of 22 November 2000. + Article 90 Repealed. -------------- Art. 90 was repealed by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 140 140 of 14 September 2000 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 467 467 of 26 September 2000. + Article 91 Repealed. -------------- Art. 91 was repealed by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 129 129 of 30 June 2000 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 311 311 of 5 July 2000. + Article 92 (1) For the 2000 elections the Ministry of Interior will ensure the preparation and issuance of voter books, under the conditions of this law. For citizens with the right to vote, holders of the identity card, the voter cards will be issued concurrently with the identity cards, under the law. ... (2) Until the completion of the process of issuing identity cards, according to the law, for citizens with the right to vote who do not hold an identity card, namely voter card, after voting, on the identity document of each voter applies stamp with the words "Voted" and the date. ... -------------- Art. 92 was amended by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 63 63 of 26 May 2000 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 240 240 of 31 May 2000. + Article 92 ^ 1 (1) The distribution of voter cards for the 2000 elections shall be as follows: ... a) for persons who have their domicile in urban localities the voter cards can be picked up on the day of elections at the counters of the computerized records of the person; ... b) for persons who have their domicile in rural localities the voter cards can be picked up until November 19, 2000 including from the counters of the computerized records of the person to whom the locality is aronded, and as of November 20, 2000, including on the day of voting, from the police stations in the voter's home town. ... (2) The books of unidled voter from the communal police stations shall be returned to the parties of computerized record of the person within 5 days from the date of conclusion of the voting. ... -------------- Art. 92 ^ 1 was introduced by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 212 212 of 21 November 2000 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 594 594 of 22 November 2000. + Article 93 (1) The Central Electoral Office may accredit as internal observers only persons empowered by a non-governmental organization that has as its sole purpose the protection of human rights, legally constituted until the date of opening of the electoral campaign. ... (2) Persons designated as internal observers may not be members of a party or political party. Accreditation is done for a single polling station. The Central Electoral Office may accredit to a polling station only an internal observer, based on its written declaration to comply with the conditions of accreditation. The declaration is given on its own responsibility and constitutes public act, with all the consequences provided by law. The conditions of accreditation are passed in the act of accreditation; if there are several empowered for the same section, the accreditation is made by lot. ... (3) Non-governmental organizations provided in par. (1) are applicable to them, accordingly, the provisions of art. 45 45 para. ((3) and art. 51 51 para. ((5). ... (4) The minutes handed over to the Central Electoral Office, its books, as well as all documents and materials from the Central Electoral Office, resulting from the electoral process for the election of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate, shall be keeps, in accordance with the provisions National Archives Law no. 16/1996 , in the archive of the Supreme Court of Justice, separate from the other court documents. ... ------------- Alin. ((1) art. 93 was amended by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 63 63 of 26 May 2000 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 240 240 of 31 May 2000. Alin. ((4) art. 93 was introduced by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 140 140 of 14 September 2000 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 467 467 of 26 September 2000. + Article 94 (1) The voting bulletins used or not used, the minutes and stamps required for voting, received by the courts of the constituency electoral bureaus or from the electoral bureaus of the polling stations, will be kept in the archive, separate from the other documents of the court, for 3 months from the date of publication of the election results in the Official Gazette of Romania ... (2) After the deadline provided in par. (1) the courts, with the support of the prefects, shall teach, in order to melt, the specialized economic agents the ballots and the other materials used in the voting process. ... -------------- Art. 94 was amended by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 63 63 of 26 May 2000 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 240 240 of 31 May 2000, as amended by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 212 212 of 21 November 2000 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 594 594 of 22 November 2000. This law was adopted by the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate in the joint sitting of June 17, 1992, in compliance with the provisions of 74 74 para. ((1) and art. 76 76 para. (2) of the Romanian Constitution. CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES PRESIDENT academician ALEXANDRU BIRLADEANU SENATE PRESIDENT MARTIAN DAN + Annex 1 NUMBERING AND NUMBER OF SEATS for each electoral district ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Constituency number Location Number of Number of territorial electoral mandates mandates of Senator of Senator ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Electoral district no. 1 1 Alba 6 2 Electoral district no. 2 2 Arad 7 3 Electoral district no. 3 3 Arges 10 4 Electoral district no. 4 4 Bacau 11 5 Electoral district no. 5 5 Bihor 9 4 Electoral district no. 6 6 Bistrita-Nasaud 5 2 Electoral district no. 7 7 Botosani 7 3 Electoral district no. 8 8 Brasov 9 4 Electoral district no. 9 9 Braila 6 2 Electoral district no. 10 10 Buzau 7 3 Electoral district no. 11 11 Caras-Severin 5 2 Electoral district no. 12 12 Calarasi 5 2 Electoral district no. 13 13 Cluj 10 5 Electoral district no. 14 14 Constanta 11 5 Electoral district no. 15 15 Covasna 4 2 Electoral district no. 16 16 Dambovita 8 3 Electoral district no. 17 17 Dolj 11 5 Electoral district no. 18 18 Galati 9 4 Electoral district no. 19 19 Giurgiu 4 2 Electoral district no. 20 20 Gorj 6 2 Electoral district no. 21 21 Harghita 5 2 Electoral district no. 22 22 Hunedoara 8 3 Electoral district no. 23 23 Ialomita 4 2 Electoral district no. 24 24 Iasi 12 5 Electoral district no. 25 25 Ilfov 4 2 Electoral district no. 26 26 Maramures 8 3 Electoral district no. 27 27 Mehedinti 5 2 Electoral district no. 28 28 Mures 9 4 Electoral district no. 29 29 Neamt 8 4 Electoral district no. 30 30 Olt 7 3 Electoral district no. 31 31 Prahova 12 5 Electoral district no. 32 32 Satu Mare 6 2 Electoral district no. 33 33 Salaj 4 2 Electoral district no. 34 34 Sibiu 6 3 Electoral district no. 35 35 Suceava 10 4 Electoral district no. 36 36 Teleorman 7 3 Electoral district no. 37 37 Timis 10 4 Electoral district no. 38 38 Tulcea 4 2 Electoral district no. 39 39 Vaslui 7 3 Electoral district no. 40 40 Valcea 6 3 Electoral district no. 41 41 Vrancea 6 2 Electoral district no. 42 42 municipality Bucharest 29 13 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TOTAL: 327 140 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------- Annex no. 1 1 has been replaced by the Annex of EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 129 129 of 30 June 2000 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 311 311 of 5 July 2000. + Annex 2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | | | | | | VOTER ' S BOOK | ELECTIONS | ELECTIONS | | released by *) .............. | No. 1 | No. 2 | | ............................. | | | | | signature and place | --------------------- | --------------------- | | stampede * *) ................ | | | | | for ***) ................. | ELECTIONS | ELECTIONS | | signature ................... | No. 3 | No. 4 | | home ................. | | | | | | --------------------- | --------------------- | | | --------------------------------- | It is counted starting with the first | | INCOMMUNICABLE | elections after the 1992 elections | | --------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | | | | | | ELECTIONS | ELECTIONS | ELECTIONS | SCRUT | N | | No. 5 | No. 6 | No. 9 | No. 10 | | | | | | | | ------------------ | ------------------- | ------------------- | ----------------- | | | | | | | | ELECTIONS | ELECTIONS | SCRUT | N | ELECTIONS | | No. 7 | No. 8 | No. 11 | No. 12 | | | | | | | | ------------------ | ------------------- | ------------------- | ----------------- | | It reckons starting with the first | It reckons starting with the first | | election after 1992 election | election after 1992 election | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ *) Mayor of locality. **) The signature of the mayor and the stamp of the local council ***) Name and surname of the holder. NOTE: 1. The dimensions of the voter card are: 11 cm wide and 15 cm long, the letters are body 10 straight verzal, and the completion of the book is made with black or blue ink; the 2nd face of the voter card is on the back of the first girl. 2. Scrutins, in case of partial elections, are deducted from all voter cards, therefore also from those of voters residing in localities located in electoral districts where such elections were not held. 3. At the exhaustion of the number of elections, the Government will ensure the issuance of new voter cards, amending only, accordingly, the year of the first round of elections. 4. Upon issuance of a duplicate, under the name "Voter Card" will be typed the mention " Duplicat no. ....... ....... ", passing the duplicate number in the order of his release. + Annex 3 I. MODEL OF THE BALLOT FOR CHOOSING THE CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES ROMANIA D BALLOT PAPER FOR CHOOSING THE CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES * *) Electoral district no. .......... --------- *) The election date is passed. -------------------------------- ---------------------------------- | 1) 2) | | | | | 3) | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ------------------------------- ---------------------------------- -------------------------------- ---------------------------------- | | | | 4) 5) | | | | | 6) | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | -------------------------------- ---------------------------------- NOTE: 1) The full name of the party, political party or their alliance is passed in the order established according to the law. ... 2) The electoral sign is passed; between the name of the party, the political party, respectively of their alliance, as well as the electoral sign to keep the distance of 3 letters. The electoral sign will be printed in a graphic space of 2.5 cm x 2.5 cm. ... 3) The surnames and names of the candidates shall be passed, in the order of the list of candidates submitted, as well as, if applicable, the political affiliation abbreviated by the initials of the party or political party, after which the quadrilateral ... 4) The mention "Independent candidate" is passed; for each independent candidate a distinct quadrilateral is printed, in the final part of the bulletin, in the order provided by law. ... 5) The electoral sign is passed. ... 6) The surname and name of the independent candidate are passed ... 7) All surnames, names and words that enroll inside the quadrangles will be printed with the letter body 10 straight verzal. ... II. MODEL OF THE BALLOT FOR THE ELECTION OF THE SENATE ROMANIA S BALLOT PAPER FOR THE SENATE ELECTION * *) Electoral district no. .......... --------- *) The election date is passed. -------------------------------- ---------------------------------- | 1) 2) | | | | | 3) | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ------------------------------- ---------------------------------- -------------------------------- ---------------------------------- | | | | 4) 5) | | | | | 6) | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | -------------------------------- ---------------------------------- NOTE: 1) The full name of the party, political party or their alliance is passed in the order established according to the law. ... 2) The electoral sign is passed; between the name of the party, the political party, respectively of their alliance, as well as the electoral sign to keep the distance of 3 letters. The electoral sign will be printed in a graphic space of 2.5 cm x 2.5 cm. ... 3) The surnames and names of the candidates shall be passed, in the order of the list of candidates submitted, as well as, if applicable, the political affiliation abbreviated by the initials of the party or political party, after which the quadrilateral ... 4) The mention "Independent candidate" is passed; for each independent candidate a distinct quadrilateral is printed, in the final part of the bulletin, in the order provided by law. ... 5) The electoral sign is passed. ... 6) The surname and name of the independent candidate are passed ... 7) All surnames, names and words that enroll inside the quadrangles will be printed with the letter body 10 straight verzal. ... III. MODEL OF THE POLLING STATION STAMP Electoral Constituency *) Polling station no. -------- *) The number of electoral district is passed. --- ((VOTED) ((X)) --- --------------- Annex no. 3 3 has been amended by EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 129 129 of 30 June 2000 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 311 of July 5, 2000 by replacing the phrase "political coalition" or "electoral coalition" with the "political alliance". --------------- Note: See also ORDINANCE no. 84 84 of 30 August 2001 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 544 544 of 1 September 2001. --------------- Art. II of LAW no. 286 286 of 27 June 2003 published in MONITORUL OFFICIAL no. 473 473 of 2 July 2003 provides: "The provisions of this Law shall apply from 1 January 2004." -------
