Electoral competitors may have representatives during each electoral campaign. These persons help electoral competitors unfold their electoral campaigns, make electoral propaganda, in their favor, and represent their interests in relations with public authorities, voters, councils and electoral committees. The Central Elections Commission or the district electoral council shall determine the number of representatives.
Electoral competitors select these persons independently and present them to the respective electoral authority in order to have them registered and to issue identity cards for them.
Central Elections Commission shall register the representatives in parliamentary elections. In case of elections for the position of councilor in the local council, the representatives of the competitor shall be registered by the due district electoral council.
[Paragraph 3, article 45 as amended by the Law no.796-XV from 25.01.2002]
[Paragraph 3, article 45 as amended by the Law no.1227-XIV from 21.09.2000]
Electoral competitors may at any moment before the day precedent to elections, suspend the powers of their representatives in order to substitute them with other persons.
Upon request, the representatives of the electoral competitors may be exonerated from the duties of their permanent working place, without maintaining the salary. They may not be remunerated from means allocated for elections. During the electoral campaign, these representatives may not be dismissed or deprived of their powers from the working place without consent.
[Paragraph 5, article 45 as amended by the Law no.268-XIV from 04.02.1999]
Representatives of electoral competitors holding public positions may not use public means and assets in electoral campaigns.
