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Article 17
 

1) The electoral bureaux of constituency shall have the following attributions:


a) to ensure the organisation in time of the polling stations, to oversee and ensure the unitary implementation and observance of the legal dispositions on the elections by all authorities, institutions and bodies with responsibilities in the electoral matter from within the constituency;


b) to register the candidatures submitted at the constituency level and to find that they remain final;


c) to communicate, within 24 hours of the moment the candidatures remain final, to the Central Electoral Bureau, political parties, political alliances, electoral alliances and organisations of citizens belonging to national minorities with representation in the Parliament by own parliamentary group in both Chambers of the Parliament, the other political parties, political alliances and organisations of citizens belonging to national minorities having put forward candidates at the level of the uninominal colleges under the jurisdiction of the constituency, as well as the number of candidatures forwarded by them;


d) to make the publications and posters stipulated in the present title regarding the candidatures;


e) to solve the objections referring to their own activity and the contestations regarding the operations of the electoral bureaux of the polling stations or, as appropriate, of the electoral offices within the constituency in which they operate; the contestations shall be solved by decisions which are mandatory for the electoral bureau in cause, as well as for the public authorities and institutions they refer to, under the sanctions stipulated by the present title;


f) to distribute to the electoral bureaux of the polling stations, through mayors, based on a delivery note, the ballot papers, control stamp and the stamps with the specification “VOTED”, the forms for the conclusion of minutes, as well as the other materials needed in the electoral process. The Electoral Bureau of Constituency of the Municipality of Bucharest shall distribute these materials to the electoral offices;


g) to set the mandates due, at constituency level, to each political party, political alliance, electoral alliance and organisation of citizens belonging to a national minority, independent candidate participating in the elections under the terms of the present title, in compliance with the provisions of article 48;


h) to issue the certificate proving the election to the candidates declared elected;


i) to submit to the Central Electoral Bureau the minutes including the election result in the uninominal colleges that form the constituency in which they function, and the election result at the level of the constituency in which they operate, as well as the objections, contestations and minutes received from the county electoral bureaux;


j) to fulfil any other attributions incumbent upon them under the present title;


k) to make public, within 48 hours of the setting up, the number of electors entered on the permanent electoral rolls of each uninominal college.


(2) The decisions of the electoral bureau of constituency shall be made public in open meeting.


(3) The district electoral offices shall have the following attributions:


a) to monitor the implementation of the legal provisions on the elections in the districts in which they operate, and to ensure the organisation in due time of the polling stations;


b) to solve the objections referring to their own activity and the contestations regarding the operations of the electoral bureaux of the polling stations under the jurisdiction of the district in which they operate;


c) to distribute to the electoral bureaux of the polling stations, through mayors, the ballot papers, the control stamp and the stamps with the specification “VOTED”, the forms for the conclusion of the minutes, as well as the other materials needed in the electoral process;


d) to totalise the election result, according to the minutes received from the electoral bureaux of the polling stations under subordination for each uninominal college for the election of Deputies, and for each uninominal college for the election of Senators under the jurisdiction of the district in which they operate, and to send the results to the Electoral Bureau of the Constituency of the Municipality of Bucharest to which it is subordinated;


e) to submit to the electoral bureau of constituency to which it is subordinated the minutes including the election result, under the jurisdiction of the respective district, as well as the objections, contestations and minutes received from the electoral bureaux of the polling stations;


f) repealed.


(4) The decisions of the district electoral office shall be made public in open meeting.