(1) This law regulates the status of the elections for the local public administration authorities – local councils, county councils, mayors and presidents of county councils.

(2) Local councils and county councils, mayors and presidents of county councils are elected through universal, equal, direct, secret and freely expressed vote.**

( 3) Local and county councils are elected by electoral constituencies, based on the slate voting, according to the principle of proportional representation.

(4) The mayors of communes, towns, municipalities, the sectors of the Municipality of Bucharest and the General Mayor of the Municipality of Bucharest, as well as the presidents of the county councils are elected by electoral constituencies, through the first-past-the-post system.*

(5) The deputy mayors as well as the vice-presidents of county councils are elected by indirect vote, by the local councils, respectively the county councils.*

(6) The provisions of this law concerning local councils and mayors, as well as those concerning communal, town, municipal constituencies and sector constituencies, for the Municipality of Bucharest, shall also apply to the General Council and to the General Mayor of the Municipality of Bucharest, as well as to the electoral constituency of the Municipality of Bucharest, unless otherwise stipulated.

* Amended by Government Emergency Ordinance No. 40/2019.

** Amended by Government Emergency Ordinance No. 40/2019.