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Elections on last stretch: More than 20 million paper ballots ordered for EP elections. BEC accredited CURS and Avangarde to carry out opinion polls upon exiting polling stations

May 13, 2019

The Standing Electoral Authority (AEP) has informed that 20,104,459 paper ballots have been ordered, to be used in the polling stations in Romania in the European Parliament elections of May 26, and 1,333,500 paper ballots have been ordered for the polling stations abroad. Likewise, according to the announcement posted on...

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