(1) The Permanent Electoral Authority, the Ministry of Interior, the National Institute of Statistics, the prefects, the presidents of county councils and the mayors must provide the necessary auxiliary technical staff in support of the activity of the electoral bureaus and offices.*
(2) The auxiliary technical staff of the Central Electoral Bureau shall be provided by the Permanent Electoral Authority, the Ministry of Interior and the National Institute of Statistics.*
(21)The auxiliary technical staff of the county constituency electoral bureaus shall be provided by the Permanent Electoral Authority, the prefects and the National Institute of Statistics, and may be supplemented where necessary with personnel provided by presidents of county councils and mayors, under the conditions set by Government decision.**
(22) The auxiliary technical staff of county, municipality and town constituency electoral bureaus, also of the sector electoral offices shall be provided by mayors, under the conditions set by Government decision.**
(23) During the bureaus and electoral offices’ period of functioning, their members, statisticians, the auxiliary technical staff and computer operators appointed by the Permanent Electoral Authority shall be deemed seconded.**
(24) During the whole period of carrying out the tasks regarding the organisation and conduct of the elections of public administration authorities, the authorities and public institutions where the persons referred to in paragraph (23) are hired provide these with wage payment, emoluments for transfer, as well as any other daily allowances than those provided by paragraph (23) and also with any other due payment rights, according to law, from the state budget sources.**
(3) Accredited persons and delegates may attend the electoral operations only if they produce their accreditation document. They shall not interfere in any way with the organisation and unfolding of the elections, being only entitled to inform the president of the electoral bureau when finding irregularities. Any propaganda action for or against a political party, political alliance, electoral alliance or independent candidate, or att empt to infl uence the voters’ option, as well as the violation, in any way, of the accreditation document shall entail the enforcement of the legal sanctions, the cancellation of the accreditation by the electoral bureau having found the fault, and, on the election day, the immediate removal of that person from the polling station. The removal from the polling station is done by the staff guarding the polling station only upon the request of the president of the electoral bureau of the polling station.
* Amended by Government Emergency Ordinance No. 40/2019.
** Inserted by Government Emergency Ordinance No. 40/2019.
