Nearly 19 million voters are expected to go to the polls on Sunday to elect their representatives to the European Parliament, with 18,955 polling stations in Romania and 915 abroad – most of them in Italy, Spain and the UK.
Romanians must elect 33 MEPs to represent their interests in Brussels for the next five years, with 494 candidates on party lists or registered as independents.
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Romanian citizens who are or turn 18 years of age or older up to and including election day and who are not under judicial advice or special guardianship by a final court decision or who are not sentenced by a final court decision to lose the right to vote may vote in the European Parliament elections on Sunday. However, EU citizens (from another EU member state) who have registered on the special lists to vote for Romania’s representatives in the European Parliament also have the right to vote.
According to the MAE, Romanian citizens who are registered on the electoral lists of other EU member states may exercise their right to vote for the election of Romania’s representatives in the European Parliament only after they have made a declaration that they have not exercised their right to vote in the same elections for members of the European Parliament in the EU member state whose electoral lists they are on.
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Voters vote at the polling stations to which they are registered according to domicile or residence. However, if the voter is not in his/her place of residence on polling day, he/she may vote in the EP elections at any station in the country, being entered on the supplementary electoral rolls.
At the same, Romanian citizens who are abroad on election day, regardless of the reason for their presence abroad – domicile, residence, tourism – may vote at any polling station organised abroad only if they are not included in the table drawn up by the Permanent Electoral Authority, which includes Romanian citizens who exercise their right to vote in the European Parliament elections in another member state of the European Union. If the voter is included in the table, he/she can vote only after signing a declaration that he/she has not exercised his/her right to vote in the same election in another member state of the European Union.
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One can vote with a valid identity document issued by the Romanian state, namely, identity card; provisional identity card; identity card or diplomatic passport; electronic diplomatic passport; service passport; electronic service passport; military service card (for students in military schools). One cannot vote on the basis of your travel document or use a voter’s card.
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Voting starts at 7.00 am on Sunday and ends at 10.00 pm – for polling stations abroad this is local time.
As both EP and local elections take place on 9 June, voters can choose to vote in one or both elections.
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Twelve political parties and electoral alliances and four independent candidates will run in the European Parliament elections.
AGERPRES
