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Article 63
 

(1) The Permanent Electoral Authority is an autonomous administrative institution, being a legal entity with general competence, which ensures the integrated implementation, within the time lapse between two electoral periods, of the legal dispositions regarding the organisation and conduct of elections, or of other consultations with national or local character. The Permanent Electoral Authority shall pursue and support the endowment of the polling stations with the necessary logistics, as well as the achievement of specific operations within the time lapse between two electoral periods.


(2) Within the meaning of the present title, the electoral period is the time lapse that begins at the time of bringing to public knowledge of the election day and ends with the official communication of the election results. The electoral period includes the time lapse between the time of bringing to public knowledge of the election day and the date of the commencement of the electoral campaign, the electoral campaign, the actual conduct of voting, the numbering and centralisation of votes, the acknowledging of the election results, the allocation of mandates, and the publication of the election results in OJ, Part I.


(3) The Permanent Electoral Authority is led by a president with a rank of minister, seconded by two vice presidents with a rank of state secretary.


(4) The president is appointed by decision adopted in a joint session of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate, at the proposal of parliamentary groups, from among the personalities educated and trained in the legal or administrative field. The candidate who meets the Deputies and Senators’ majority of votes shall be appointed president.


(5) The president is seconded by two vice-presidents with a rank of state secretary, of which one is appointed by the President of Romania, and the other by the Prime Minister.


(6) The president and vice presidents cannot be members of a political party.


(7) The mandate of the president and the mandates of the vice presidents of the Permanent Electoral Authority shall be of 8 years each and may be renewed only once.


(8) The mandate of president and vice-presidents shall cease in the following instances: a) expiry of mandate; b) resignation; c) dismissal; d) demise.


(9) The president and the vice presidents may be dismissed, on solid grounds, by the authorities that appointed them.


(10) The Permanent Electoral Authority, with the opinion of the Ministry of Economy and Finance, shall approve the draft of its own budget, before the debate on the state budget, and shall submit it to the Government with the view to including it in the state budget. In order to include the capital expenditure in its own budget, the Permanent Electoral Authority consults the Government. 


(11) The president of the Permanent Electoral Authority shall be a loan manager. In fulfilling the duties which are incumbent upon him/her, the president shall issue orders.


(12) The Permanent Electoral Authority shall have a general secretary appointed by the Prime Minister on an examination basis, under the terms of law.


(13) In the president’s absence, his/her duties shall be fulfilled by one of the vice presidents settled by order.