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Article 42
 

(1) The county electoral bureaux, the electoral bureaux of the Bucharest Municipality districts, and the electoral bureau for the polling stations abroad shall supervise the fair conduct of the electoral campaign, settling, by decisions, the complaints referring to the electoral campaign. The decision is brought to public knowledge by posting it in a visible place at the headquarters of the electoral bureaux that issued it.


(2) If the county electoral bureaux, the electoral bureaux of the Bucharest Municipality districts, and the electoral bureau for the polling stations abroad consider that on settling the complaint it is imperative to take administrative measures or to impose penalties for minor or criminal offences, they shall notify the competent authorities.


(3) The decisions of the county electoral bureaux, of the electoral bureaux of the Bucharest Municipality districts, and of the electoral bureau for the polling stations abroad may be challenged to the Central Electoral Bureau, within 48 hours at the latest of their posting.


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


(5) The petitions formulated within the legal time limit against the decisions adopted by the county electoral bureaux, the electoral bureaux of the Bucharest Municipality districts, and the electoral bureau for the polling stations abroad shall suspend their execution.


(6) The decisions adopted by the county electoral bureaux, the electoral bureaux of the Bucharest Municipality districts, and the electoral bureau for the polling stations abroad shall be enforceable from the date when the time limits for challenging them expire.


(7) The petitions concerning the hindrance of a party or of a political formation, or of a candidate to conduct the electoral campaign according to law shall be settled by the Constitutional Court, with the majority vote of the judges, within 48 hours at the most of their registration.