Confirmation of the legality of elections and mandate validation

(1) The District Electoral Councils of the first-level administrative-territorial units shall submit the minutes on elections results to the second-level District Electoral Councils or, where appropriate, to the Central Electoral Commission.

(2) District Electoral Council, within 10 days after receiving the reports, minutes and other electoral documents from the Precinct Electoral Bureaus, where appropriate, from the first-level District Electoral Councils, but not before the Courts have made final decisions on complaints submitted according to the established procedures, confirms or denies by a decision the legality of the elections in the concerned electoral district and shall forward it, within 24 hours after adoption, to the Central Electoral Commission and the concerned second-level District Electoral Councils, that shall publish the final results.

(3) Once the legality of elections has been confirmed, the concerned District Electoral Councils shall establish the elected candidates, shall allocate and validate the mandates of the councillors and Mayors, and shall confirm the list of alternate candidates, by adopting a decision to that effect. The person elected at the same time for the position of Mayor and councillor shall submit to the District Electoral Council his/her consent to be validated in one of those two positions.

(4) The council shall be considered legally constituted when mandates of at least 2/3 of the total number of councillors are being validated.

(5) The badge for the local elected official is prepared and issued in line with the procedure established by the Law no. 256/2004 on the adoption of the Regulation on the local elected official badge and the Regulation on the local elected official pin.