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Article 2
 

(1) Within the meaning of this law, the terms below shall have the following meanings:


a) electoral period – the time span that starts on the date of coming into force of the Government Decision on setting the election date, and ends when the results of the poll are published in the Official Journal of Romania, Part I; the electoral period covers the time span between the date of coming into force of the Government Decision on setting the election date and the date when the electoral campaign starts, the electoral campaign, the actual conduct of the voting, the vote counting and centralization, the ascertaining of the results of the voting, the allocation of the mandate, the validation of election, and the publication of the results in the Official Journal of Romania, Part I;


b) voters’ majority of votes – is determined as the full, unrounded share of the balance between the number of voters registered on the permanent electoral rolls and the figure 2, to which one unit shall be added, and represents the minimum number of votes validly cast that a candidate must obtain in the first round, in order to be elected President of Romania;


c) permanent electoral rolls – the lists comprising the Romanian citizens entitled to vote, who have turned 18 by the election day inclusive;


d) identity document – the identity card, the electronic identity card, the temporary identity card, the identity certificate or the diplomatic passport, the electronic diplomatic passport, the official passport, the electronic official passport, the regular passport, the electronic regular passport, the temporary regular passport, the travel document, and the military service report card for students in military schools, all valid on election day;


e) parliamentary political parties - parties and other political formations which have their own parliamentary group in at least one of the Houses of Parliament and which obtained from the last general election for the Parliament of Romania mandates of deputies or senators for candidates on their lists or lists of political or election alliances which included political parties or formations concerned.


(2) The regular passport, the electronic regular passport, the temporary regular passport, and the travel document may be used with a view to exercising the right to vote only by the Romanian citizens who vote abroad or by the Romanian citizens who have their domicile abroad, and vote in Romania.