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Article 22
 

(1) Within 2 days at the most of the expiry of the time limit stipulated under Art. 21 paragraph (9), the political formations that proposed candidates shall communicate to the county electoral bureau, the electoral bureau of the district respectively, in the case of Bucharest Municipality, the list of their representatives in the electoral bureaux of the polling stations as a table containing the following: polling station number, full name, personal numerical code, domicile or residence and contact modality, namely telephone and fax number or e-mail. A political formation may have 2 representatives at most in an electoral bureau of a polling station.


(2) The electoral bureaux of the polling stations shall be completed with the representatives of the political formations by the president of the county electoral bureau, the president of the electoral bureau of the district of Bucharest Municipality respectively, in the presence of the representatives of the political formations in the county electoral bureau or in the electoral bureau of the respective district, within 48 hours of the expiry of the time limit provided for in paragraph (1). The operations incurred by the completion of the electoral bureaux of the polling stations may be carried out over those 48 hours, and shall be recorded in written reports, which shall represent the deeds of investiture. The electoral bureaux of the polling stations shall be considered set up on the date when they are completed with the representatives of the political formations.


(3) The electoral bureaux of the polling stations shall be completed - in the first stage, with the representatives of the political formations represented in Parliament that proposed candidates, and, in the second stage, by drawing lots in each polling station, with the representatives of the other political formations that proposed candidates – by the president of the county electoral bureau or that of the district of Bucharest Municipality, as the case may be.


(4) In the event that, following the carrying out of the operations referred to in paragraphs (2) and (3), there are still electoral bureaux of the polling stations which have not the maximum number of members provided for in paragraph (1), these bureaux shall be completed by drawing lots, in each polling station, from among all political formations that filed proposals for the second representative in that polling station.


(5) In the event that, following the carrying out of the operations referred to in paragraphs (2).- (4), there are still electoral bureaux of the polling stations which have not at least 5 members, namely president, deputy and 3 members, these bureaux shall be completed with persons on the reserve list at the disposal of the president of the county electoral bureau or that of the district of Bucharest Municipality, as the case may be, by drawing lots, with the observance of the provisions of Art. 21 paragraph (8).


(6) At the written request of the representatives of political formations in the electoral bureau, the president of the county electoral bureau or, as the case may be, that of the electoral bureau of the district of Bucharest Municipality shall put at the disposal thereof certified copies of the written reports for the completion of the electoral bureaux of the polling stations.


(7) One certified copy of the written reports of completion shall be handed over to the presidents of the county electoral bureaux through the agency of the mayors.