(1) Constituency electoral bureaus have the following powers:

a) to ensure the timely organisation of the polling stations, to monitor and ensure the unitary application and observance of the legal provisions concerning the elections by all the authorities, institutions and bodies with responsibilities in the electoral field in that constituency;

b) to register the candidatures filed in the constituency;

c) to communicate, within 24 hours from the date the candidatures have remained final, to the Central Electoral Bureau, the lists of candidates, as well as the independent candidatures at the level of that constituency;

d) to publish and display all the documents referred to in this law concerning the candidatures;

e) to ascertain the fact that the candidatures have remained final;

f) to settle any objection concerning their own activity and any challenge concerning the operations of the electoral bureaus of the polling stations or, where appropriate, of the electoral offices in the electoral constituency where they operate; the challenges shall be settled through decisions binding for the respective electoral bureau, as well as for the public authorities and institutions that they refer to, under the penalties referred to by this law;

g) to distribute to the electoral bureaus of the polling stations, through the mayors, based on a handover-takeover report, the ballot papers, the control stamp and the ‘VOTED’ stamps, the forms for drawing up the minutes, as well as the other materials necessary to the electoral process. The Constituency Electoral Bureau of the Municipality of Bucharest shall distribute these materials to the electoral offices; the constituency electoral bureau for the Romanian citizens domiciled or residing abroad shall distribute these materials to the electoral bureaus of the polling stations abroad, with the logistic support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs;

h) to establish, at the level of the constituency, the number of mandates to which every political party, political alliance, electoral alliance, organisation of citizens belonging to a national minority, independent candidate taking part in the elections is entitled, according to this law, in accordance with the provisions of Article 94;

i) to issue to the candidates declared elected the certificate proving the election;

j) to remit to the Central Electoral Bureau the minutes including the result of the elections at the level of the electoral constituency in which they operate, as well as the objections, challenges and minutes received from the electoral bureaus of the polling stations;

k) to fulfil any other powers incumbent upon them according to this law.

(2) The decisions of the constituency electoral bureau are delivered in public session and by being posted on its own Website and are communicated to the parties concerned.

(3) Sector electoral offices have the following powers:

a) to monitor the implementation of the legal provisions concerning the elections in the sectors where they operate and to ensure the timely organisation of the polling stations;

b) to settle any objection concerning their own activity and any challenge concerning the operations of the electoral bureaus of the polling stations in the sector where they operate;

c) to distribute to the electoral bureaus of the polling stations, through the mayors, the ballot papers, the control stamp and the ‘VOTED’ stamps, the forms for drawing up the minutes, as well as other materials necessary to the electoral process;

d) to total the results of the elections, according to the minutes received from the electoral bureaus of the subordinated polling stations and to send the results to the Constituency Electoral Bureau of the Municipality of Bucharest, to which they are subordinated;

e) to remit to the constituency electoral bureau to which they are subordinated the minutes including the result of the elections at the level of the respective sector, as well as the objections, challenges and minutes received from the electoral bureaus of the polling stations.

(4) The decisions of the sector electoral office are delivered in public session and by being posted on its own website.