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Article 43
 

(1) Besides the members of the electoral bureaux and the candidates, all the operations of the polling stations, as well as all the operations carried out by the electoral bureaux at all levels may be watched by:


a) authorised internal observers;


b) authorised representatives of foreign organisations;


c) authorised representatives of the written press, radio and television, Romanian and foreign.


(2) The representatives of non-governmental organisations whose main object of activity is the defence of democracy and of human rights, that are legally set up with 6 months prior to the day of conduct of the elections and whose leadership does not include any member of a political party or organisation of citizens belonging to a national minority may also be accredited as internal observers. The persons appointed by these organisations as observers may not be members of any political party or organisation of citizens belonging to a national minority participating in the elections under the present title.


(3) The representatives of the written press, radio and television of Romania shall be accredited by the Permanent Electoral Authority. Any contestation regarding the accreditation or rejection of the accreditation request shall be settled by the Court of Appeal in Bucharest, within two days of the registration. The sentence pronounced shall be final and irrevocable.


(4) They may accredit as internal observers only the persons proposed by those non-governmental organisations thought by the Permanent Electoral Authority to be compliant with the provisions of paragraph (2). The internal observers shall be accredited by the electoral bureaux of constituency.


(5) The accreditation of the representatives of the foreign press, radio and television stations, as well as of the representatives of international organisations with activity in the field of democracy and of human rights which demand this shall be made by the Permanent Electoral Authority, at the proposal of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.


(6) The violation of the terms of accreditation shall entail, de jure, the termination of the accreditation.


(7) The accredited persons may be present at the electoral operations on the day of vote, starting with 6.00 a.m. and ending with the moment when the members of the electoral bureau of the polling station conclude and sign the minute for finding the result of the vote in the respective polling station, provided that they present the accreditation document. These persons may not intervene in any way in the organisation and conduct of the elections, their only right being that of informing in writing the president of the electoral bureau in the case of irregularities of any kind. Any act of propaganda for or against a political party, political alliance, electoral alliance or organisation of citizens belonging to a national minority participating in the elections under the present title, or independent candidate, or the attempt to influence the elector’s choice, as well as the violation by any means of the act of accreditation shall entail the application of the legal sanctions, the annulment of the accreditation by the electoral bureau having found the infringement, and on the election day, the immediate removal of the respective person from the polling station.