- (1) Within the meaning of this law, the terms below shall have the following meanings:

a) electoral period - the time span that starts on the date of coming into force of the Government Decision on setting the election date, and ends when the results of the poll are published in the Official Gazette of Romania, Part I; the electoral period covers the time span between the date of coming into force of the Government Decision on establishing the election date and the date when the electoral campaign starts, the electoral campaign, the actual conduct of the voting, the vote counting and centralization, the ascertaining of the results of the voting, the allocation of the mandate, the validation of election, and the publication of the result of the elections in the Official Gazette of Romania, Part I;

b) voters’ majority of votes - is determined as the full, unrounded share of the balance between the number of voters registered on the permanent electoral rolls and the figure 2, to which one unit shall be added, and represents the minimum number of votes validly cast that a candidate must obtain in the first round, in order to be elected President of Romania;

c) permanent electoral rolls - the lists comprising the Romanian citizens entitled to vote, who have turned 18 by the election day inclusive;

d) identity document - the identity card, the electronic identity card, the temporary identity card, the identity document or the diplomatic passport, the electronic diplomatic passport, the service passport, the electronic service passport, the regular passport, the electronic regular passport, the temporary regular passport and the military service record, for students in military schools, all valid on the voting day;

e) parliamentary political parties - the parties and other political formations which have their own parliamentary group in at least one of the Chambers of Parliament, and which obtained in the last general elections for the Parliament of Romania mandates of deputy or senator for the candidates on their lists or on the lists of a political or electoral alliance which the respective political parties or formations belonged to;

(2) The regular passport, the electronic regular passport and the temporary regular passport may be used with a view to exercising the right to vote only by the Romanian citizens voting abroad or by the Romanian citizens having their domicile abroad and who are voting in Romania.