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Article 19(1)
 

– (1) The electoral signs shall be set and communicated to the Central Electoral Bureau by each political party, political alliance, electoral alliance or organisation of citizens belonging to national minorities, that takes part in the elections, or by the independent candidates at least 60 days prior to the reference date. The electoral signs may not be contrary to the rule of law.


(2) The electoral signs communicated to the Central Electoral Bureau must be clearly distinct from each other, since the use of the same graphic signs is forbidden, irrespective of the geometrical figure which borders them. The political parties and alliances may use as an electoral sign the permanent sign which they registered with the Bucharest Tribunal.


(3) The electoral signs shall not reproduce or combine the national symbols of the Romanian state, of other states, of the European Union, of international organisms or religious cults. However, the political parties which are members of international political organisations are an exception, and they may use the sign of the respective organisation as such or in a particular combination.


(4) The electoral sign used by a political party, political alliance, electoral alliance or organisation of citizens belonging to national minorities legally registered starting from 1990 shall be rightfully its own, if it used it first, and may not be taken or used by another political party, political alliance, electoral alliance or organisation of citizens belonging to national minorities registered afterwards or by an independent candidate without the consent of the ones that owned them, namely the parties that joined the 31 initial political or electoral alliance.


(5) In the event the same electoral sign is requested by more political parties, political alliances and electoral alliances, and organisations of citizens belonging to national minorities that take part in the elections or independent candidates, the assignment shall be to the benefit of the political party, political alliance, electoral alliance, organisation of citizens belonging to national minorities or of the independent candidate who registered first the respective sign.


(6) Within 24 hours of the expiry of the time limit stipulated in paragraph (1), the Central Electoral Bureau shall admit, by decision, the electoral signs which meet the conditions stipulated in paragraphs (1)-(5), and shall reject by decision the electoral signs which do not meet such requirements.


(7) The contestations contesting the admission or rejection of the electoral signs shall be submitted in writing to the Bucharest Tribunal within 24 hours of the expiry of the time limit stipulated in paragraph (6), and may be settled within two days at the most of the contestation registration. The judgement shall be final and irrevocable, and shall be communicated to the petitioners and to the Central Electoral Bureau within 24 hours at the most.


(8) The Central Electoral Bureau shall see to make public the admitted electoral signs on the day after the expiry of the time limit stipulated in paragraph (6) or in paragraph (7), where appropriate, by publishing on its web page and in the Official Gazette of Romania, Part I.


(9) The political alliance or the electoral alliance that took part in the previous elections under a denomination may keep it unless it did not change the initial composition or no one of the political parties which left the alliance declares its disagreement that the respective denomination to be used by another political alliance or electoral alliance.


(10) The political parties, organisations of citizens belonging to national minorities, political alliances, electoral alliances, and independent candidates may take part in the elections without an electoral sign.*


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