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 42, paragraph 22(1) states:

For the electors who cannot be transported on grounds of illness or invalidity, the president of the electoral bureau of the polling station may approve, following their written request, accompanied of the copy of medical documents or other official documents attesting the fact that the respective persons cannot be transported, that a team formed of at least 2 members of the electoral bureau goes, with a special ballot box and with the material needed for the vote…to the place where the elector is, in order to carry out the vote.

 

Article 42, paragraph 22(3) states:

The means of vote provided for in paragraph 22(1) … may only be used by the persons having the domicile under the jurisdiction of the respective polling station, and only if the ballot is ensured to remain secret.

 

Article 65, paragraph 1 states:

The Permanent Electoral Authority shall discharge the following main duties in the time lapse between two electoral periods... (n) elaborating programmes and setting integrated rules in keeping with the cast of vote by illiterate or disabled persons, and ensuring their popularization…

 

Excerpts 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 50 states:

Disabled persons shall enjoy special protection. The State shall provide the accomplishment of a national policy of equal opportunities, disability prevention and treatment, so that disabled persons can effectively participate in community life, while observing the rights and duties of their parents or legal guardians.

 

Excerpt 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 19(6), paragraph 1 states:

For the voters in Romania who are unfit to be moved for reasons of illness or disablement, at the written request thereof, submitted on the eve of the voting at the latest, accompanied by copies of medical or other official documents certifying that the persons in question are unfit to be moved, the president of the electoral bureau of the polling station may approve that a team made up of at least two members of the electoral bureau goes with a special ballot box and the material required by the voting…Within the jurisdiction of a polling station there shall be used only one special ballot box…

 

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