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Article 13
 

(1) The Central Electoral Bureau, the county electoral bureaux, the electoral bureaux of the districts of Bucharest Municipality, the electoral bureau for the polling stations abroad, and the electoral bureaux of the polling stations shall be set up for the organization and conduct of specific electoral operations.


(2) The electoral bureaux shall be made up only of citizens entitled to vote. The presidents of the electoral bureaux of the polling stations, the deputies thereof, and the representatives of the Permanent Electoral Authority may not be politically affiliated. The candidates, the spouses, the relatives and their affines up to the second degree inclusive may not be members of the electoral bureaux.


(3) In the discharge of their duties, the members of the electoral bureaux exercise an office that involves state authority. The fair and unbiased exercise of the office of member of the electoral bureau is mandatory. The failure to comply with this obligation shall entail legal, civil or criminal liability, as the case may be.
(4) Nobody shall be allowed to be a member of two or several electoral bureaux at the same time.


(5) The reports written on the occasion of the setting up and completion of the electoral bureaux shall certify the capacity as member of the the electoral bureau.