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Article 13
 

- (1) Within 24 hours of the registration, the Central Electoral Bureau shall make public, by posting at its headquarters, at the seats of the county electoral bureaux, of the district electoral bureaux of Bucharest Municipality, and at the seat of the electoral bureau for the polling stations abroad the lists of candidates and independent candidatures it received, as well as by means of the Romanian Television Broadcasting Company and of the Romanian Radio Broadcasting Company.*


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*Amended by G.E.O. no. 11/2009.


(2) Up to 45 days before the reference date, the Community nationals, the Community voters, the political parties, the organisations of citizens belonging to national minorities, the political alliances and the electoral alliances may question the candidatures.


(3) The petitions with regard to the admission or rejection of candidatures shall be submitted in writing to the Bucharest Tribunal and shall be settled by it within two days at the most of the registration.*


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*Amended by G.E.O. no. 11/2009.


(4) The decision may be appealed, within 24 hours of its pronouncement, to the Court of Appeal in Bucharest. The appeal shall be settled within two days of the registration. The decision shall be final and irrevocable.


(5) Within 24 hours of the expiry of the time limits specified in paragraphs (2) – (4), the Central Electoral Bureau shall establish, based on a statement of poll, the final candidatures and shall make them public according to the conditions referred to in paragraph (1).*


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*Amended by G.E.O. no. 1/2007.


(6) The order number on the ballot papers of the political parties, organisations of citizens belonging to national minorities, political alliances and of the electoral alliances which have submitted lists of candidates, as well as of the independent candidates, shall be determined as follows:


a) during the first stage, the lists of the political parties, of the organisations of citizens belonging to national minorities, political alliances and of the electoral alliances, thereof, that have members in the European Parliament shall be registered in the quadrilaterals on the ballot paper in the order resulted by drawing lots provided by the president of the Central Electoral Bureau; the list of the first party, first political alliance, first electoral alliance, first organisation of citizens belonging to national minorities taken out of the ballot box shall be printed in the quadrilateral with order number 1; the list of the second political party, second political alliance, second electoral alliance, second organisation of citizens belonging to national minorities taken out shall be printed in the quadrilateral with order number 2. The printing continues until the lists of all the political parties, political alliances, and of the electoral alliances, as well as of the organisations of citizens belonging to national minorities are exhausted;


b) during the second stage, the lists of the political parties, political alliances and of the electoral alliances, as well as of the organisations of citizens belonging to national minorities, duly established, that have no members in the European Parliament shall be registered in the next quadrilaterals on the ballot paper in the order resulted by drawing lots provided by the president of the Central Electoral Bureau.* 


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*Introduced by G.E.O. no. 1/2007 and amended by G.E.O. no. 11/2009.


(7) The drawing of lots specified under paragraph (6) shall be carried out in the presence of the representatives of the political parties, political alliances, and of the electoral alliances, as well as of the organisations of citizens belonging to national minorities that have submitted lists of candidates.* ______________


*Introduced by G.E.O. no. 1/2007.


(8) For each independent candidate a distinct quadrilateral shall be printed at the end of the ballot paper, in the order of candidature registration with the Central Electoral Bureau.*


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*Introduced by G.E.O. no. 1/2007.