Romania

Population Statistics

21,666,350

Total Population

3,249,953

Population with a disability

according to World Health Organization’s 15% estimate

Election Dates

30 January 2011

Ratified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities


Law no. 35/2008: Regulations on the Elections to the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate ...

Updated: June 2015

Article 132 states:

…(2) The representatives of the political parties, political alliances, and electoral alliances, as well as of the organisations of citizens belonging to national minorities, in the electoral bureaux and offices may be replaced, at the request of those having put them forward, with the approval of the hierarchically superior electoral bureau, until the day prior to the day of vote, and in case of demise, illness or accidents, the very day of elections.

(3) The members of the electoral bureaux and offices who do not represent political parties, political alliances, electoral alliances or, as appropriate, organisations of citizens belonging to national minorities may be replaced, in case of demise, illness or accidents by those having appointed them, with the observance, as appropriate, of the terms stipulated in articles 13, 14, 16, 17, and 19.*…

 

Excerpt from Law no. 35/2008: Regulations on the Elections to the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate (2008) 

Constitution of Romania (1991, last amended 2003)

Updated: June 2015

Article 97, paragraph 1 states:

Vacancy of the office of President of Romania shall be due upon his resignation, removal from office, permanent impossibility to discharge his powers and duties, or death.

 

Article 98, paragraph 1 states:

In case of vacancy in the office of President, or if the President is suspended from office or is temporarily incapable to exercise his powers, the interim shall devolve, in this order, on the President of the Senate or the President of the Chamber of Deputies.

 

Excerpts from the Constitution of Romania (1991, last amended 2003)

Law no. 370/2004: Regulations on the Election of the President of Romania (2004, last amended ...

Updated: June 2015

Article 7(6), paragraph 2 states:

The representatives of political formations in the electoral bureau may be replaced at the request of those who nominated them, with the approval of the hierarchically superior electoral bureau, till the day before voting day, and in case of demise, illness or accident, even on voting day, with the observance of the conditions stipulated under Art. 7(7) – 7(14).

 

Excerpt from Law no. 370/2004: Regulations on the Election of the President of Romania (2004, last amended 2009)