President of the Permanent Electoral Authority (AEP) Toni Grebla announced that the campaign for Romania's legislative elections starts on Friday, November 1, and will end on November 30 at 7:00 a.m., noting that all candidates must replace their pre-campaign promotional materials with those accepted by the law for this period.According to Grebla, approximately 21,000,000 ballot papers for each the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate will be printed for the vote in the country, and 3,069,600 for overseas voting. There will also be 6,656 postal ballot papers for each chamber of Parliament.Grebla specified that the Central Electoral Bureau approved on Wednesday all the candidate lists submitted by the political contenders, so that the drawing of lots are next to be organized at the county electoral offices to determine the candidates' order on the ballots, and the electoral ballot templates be finalized."The list of the 950 polling stations approved for out-of-country voting is available on the website of the Permanent Electoral Authority and, probably, during the day it will be published in the Official Journal; it will also be posted for certain on the website of the Foreign Affairs Ministry," Grebla added.The AEP head also specified that over 7,000 electoral experts are entered in the dedicated Roster, and that there are sufficient human resources for election activities to unfold smoothly.Grebla said that AEP owns the entire IT infrastructure for running the elections and the necessary measures were duly taken to install "the latest equipment for filtering out cyber fraud attempts."
Romanian prosecutors at the Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism in Bucharest, or DIICOT, expanded the investigation into the defunct real estate developer Nordis, after receiving 300 new complaints from victims, Digi24 reported. Nordis, a premium developer, allegedly collected...
Foreign minister Oana Țoiu conveyed Romania’s offer to host the EU Maritime Security Hub during the Ministerial Meeting on Security and Trans-Regional Connectivity in the Black Sea region, organized on the sidelines of the Foreign Affairs Council on Monday, October 20. The meeting represented a first opportunity for an in-depth high-level discussion regarding the implementation […]
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Romanian president Nicușor Dan said he would like to run for a second term “in principle,” in an interview given on Monday, October 20. However, he noted that it is too early to make a decision. Dan said he would need another 5-year term, aside from the one just beginning, because it takes time to accomplish things. […]
Romanian state-owned railway operator CFR announced on Tuesday, October 21, the cancelling of around 70 trail routes across the country due to debts of RON 100 million (EUR 20 million). The company failed to pay railway usage fees. Initially, CFR SA announced that 37 trains will be temporarily suspended, only to later increase the figure. The […]
The Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI), in cooperation with national and international partners, has foiled a sabotage operation allegedly orchestrated by Russia on Romanian territory, the agency announced on Tuesday, October 21. According to SRI, the planned attack involved two Ukrainian citizens acting under the direct coordination of Russian intelligence operatives. The pair...
