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Article 35
 

(1) The Permanent Electoral Authority is the public authority authorized to control the observance of the legal provisions on financing the political parties, the political or electoral alliances, the independent candidates and the electoral campaigns.


(2) The control of the subsidies from the state budget shall be also made simultaneously by the Court of Accounts, according to the provisions of the Law no. 94/1992 on the organization and functioning of the Court of Accounts, republished, with further amendments.


(3) Within the Permanent Electoral Authority, a Department for the control of financing the political parties and the electoral campaigns shall be set up in 60 days from the date of this law’s entering into force, by supplementing the existent personnel scheme.


(4) The Department for the control of financing the political parties and the electoral campaigns shall be run by a general director, appointed in a term of 90 days since this law’s entering into force.


(5) Any person cumulatively fulfilling the following conditions can be appointed as a general director of the Department for the control of financing the political parties and the electoral campaigns:


a) he/she can occupy a function, under the conditions mentioned at art. 11 para (1) letters a) – h) in the Law no. 7/ 2006 on the statute of the parliamentary public servant;


b) he/she has a university diploma for economic or juridical sciences;


c) He/she has not been a member of a political party during the last 5 years.


(6) The contest for occupying the function stipulated at para (4) is organized by a special commission, made of 7 members, appointed in a term of 30 days from the date of this law’s entering into force, through order of the president of the Permanent Electoral Authority; the members of the commission shall be professors with economic or juridical studies.


(7) The Commission stipulated at para (6) shall settle the regulation of the contest and designate the winning candidate, who shall be appointed in the function by the president of the Permanent Electoral Authority, in a term of 15 days from the designation.


(8) The general director of the Department for the control of financing the political parties and the electoral campaigns has the following exclusive attributions:


a) organizes the activity of control of financing the political parties;


b) coordinates the activity of the subordinated personnel;


c) Proposes the application of the sanctions stipulated by the law to the president of the Permanent Electoral Authority.