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Article 19
 

(1) The electoral bureaux of the polling stations shall be formed of a president, a deputy of the president, who usually are magistrates or jurists, as well as of 7 members. The electoral bureaux of the polling stations may not function with less than 5 members.


(2) The appointment of the presidents of the electoral bureaux of the polling stations and of their deputies shall be made 15 days prior to the election day, by the president of the tribunal, in open meeting announced with 48 hours in advance, by drawing lots, on positions from among the existing magistrates or jurists in the county or municipality of Bucharest. The lists of the magistrates participating in the drawing of lots shall be drawn up by the president of the tribunal, and those of other jurists, by the prefect, together with the president of the tribunal. The lists shall include a number of persons exceeding at least 10% of the necessary number, with these being a reserve at the disposal of the president of the tribunal, for the replacement, in special cases, of the occupants. The grouping in the lists with a view to drawing lots shall be made by taking into account the necessity for the dwellings of the persons in cause to be placed in the locality where the electoral bureau of the polling station has its premises, or as close as possible to this locality.


(3) The list provided for in paragraph (2) shall only include jurists who do not belong to any political party or any organisation of citizens belonging to national minorities participating in the elections, and are not relatives up to the fourth degree of any of the candidates.


(4) If the number of jurists is insufficient, the list shall be completed, at the prefect’s proposal with the consent of the Permanent Electoral Authority, with other persons having a good reputation in the locality, who do not belong to any political party or any organisation of citizens belonging to national minorities participating in the elections, and are not relatives up to the fourth degree of any of the candidates.


(5) The list proposed by the prefect shall include a 10% larger number of persons than the necessary one, with these persons being a reserve at the disposal of the president of the tribunal. The list shall comprise: the full names, addresses, telephone numbers and signatures for accepting the proposed persons. The list shall be accompanied by statements on own responsibility of the proposed persons, regarding the fulfilment of the terms stipulated in paragraph (4).


(6) The grouping of the persons in the list, with a view to drawing lots, shall be made by taking into account the necessity for the dwellings of the persons in cause to be placed near the premises of the electoral bureau of the polling station. The result of the drawing of lots shall be written down in a minute signed by the president of the county tribunal. The minute shall represent the act of investiture. Both the list drawn up by the president of the tribunal, and the list drawn up by the prefect shall be stamped by the Permanent Electoral Authority based on the analysis of the previous experience as presidents and deputies of presidents of electoral bureaux of polling stations resulted from the analysis of the minutes signed and handed over by them to the electoral bureaux of constituency or electoral offices, as appropriate.


(7) Within no more than 48 hours of the drawing of lots, the president of the tribunal shall send the list of the persons appointed as presidents of the electoral bureaux of the polling stations and their deputies to the electoral bureau of constituency.


(8) Within no more than two days of the expiry of the time limit stipulated in paragraph (7), the political parties, political alliances, electoral alliances, and organisations of citizens belonging to national minorities participating in the elections shall have the obligation to communicate to the electoral bureau of constituency, the electoral office, respectively, in the case of the municipality of Bucharest, the list of their representatives in the electoral bureaux of the polling stations, under the form of a table including the following: the number of the polling station, full names, personal identification numbers, domiciles or residences and means of getting in contact, telephone numbers, fax or e-mail addresses respectively. A political party, a political alliance, an electoral alliance or an organisation of citizens belonging to national minorities participating in the elections may not have more than 3 representatives in an electoral bureau of a polling station.


(9) The appointment of the representatives of political parties, political alliances, electoral alliances or organisations of citizens belonging to national minorities, who are used for the completion of the electoral bureaux of the polling stations, shall be made by the president of the electoral bureau of constituency, by the president of the electoral office respectively, in the case of the municipality of Bucharest, in the presence of the representatives of the political parties in the electoral bureau of constituency or in the respective electoral office, within 24 hours of the expiry of the time limit stipulated in paragraph (8), with the observance of the completion order stipulated in article 16 (5). The operations for appointing the members used to complete the electoral bureau of the polling station shall be written down in a minute representing the act of investiture. The electoral bureaux of the polling stations shall be deemed to be set up on the date of their completion with the representatives of the political parties, political alliances, electoral alliances or organisations of citizens belonging to national minorities.


(10) At the written request of the delegates of the political parties, political alliances, electoral alliances or organisations of citizens belonging to national minorities that have designated representatives in the electoral bureaux of the polling stations, the president of the electoral bureau of constituency or, as appropriate, of the electoral office, shall place at their disposal certified copies of the minutes for completing the electoral bureaux of the polling stations.


(11) Within 2 days of the expiry of the time limit for completing the electoral bureaux of the polling stations, the president of the electoral bureau of constituency shall inform the mayors, through the prefect’s institutions, on the structure of the electoral bureaux of the polling stations falling under the jurisdiction of their localities.