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Article 18(3)
 

– (1) The county electoral bureaux, the Bucharest Municipality district electoral bureaux, and the electoral bureau for the polling stations abroad shall see to the fair conduct of the electoral campaign settling by decisions the complaints addressed to them with regard to the hindering of a political party, political alliance, electoral alliance or organisation of citizens belonging to national minorities, that takes part in the elections, or of an independent candidate to carry out the electoral campaign thereof under the law.


(2) If the county electoral bureaux, the district electoral bureaux, and the electoral bureau for the polling stations abroad consider on settling the complaints that it is imperative to take administrative measures or to impose penalties for minor or criminal offences, they shall notify the authorities in charge.


(3) The decisions of the county electoral bureaux, of the district electoral bureaux, and of the electoral bureau for the polling stations abroad may be contested by filing contestations to the Central Electoral Bureau within 48 hours at the most of their posting. The solutions given to the contestations are final.


(4) The complaints and contestations shall be settled within 3 days of their registration.


(5) The contestations formulated in due time against the decisions adopted by the county electoral bureaux, of the district electoral bureaux, and by the electoral bureau for the polling stations abroad suspend their execution.


(6) The decisions adopted by county electoral bureaux, by district electoral bureaux, and by the electoral bureau for the polling stations abroad shall be enforceable from the date when the time limits for contesting them expires.*


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