The Central Elections Commission shall register the initiative group for the holding of the republican referendum. In order to be registered, the Commission shall be provided with the following documents:
the papers of the citizens’ assembly at which the initiative group was elected, authenticated by the mayoralty of the locality on the territory of which the assembly had taken place;
the statement of the initiative group’s members on their consent to participate in the collection of signatures of the referendum’s supporters;
the application concerning the registration of the initiative group.
[Paragraph 1, article 153 as amended by the Law no268-XIV from 04.02.1999]
The Central Elections Commission shall adopt within a 15-days term from the submission of the documents indicated in Paragraph (1) a decision on the registration of the initiative group or on the refusal to do so. In its decision on the registration of the initiative group, there shall be indicated the term of collecting the signatures of the republican referendum’s supporters, which may not be shorter that 2 months and longer than 3 months.
After the registration of the initiative group, its members shall be issued identification cards, the model of which is established by the Central Elections Commission.
The information on the registration of the initiative group and the issues planned to be subjected to republican referendum shall be brought to public knowledge by mass media means.
