Procedure and period for the allocation of mandates

(point 2 amended by Law No. 101/2020, dated 23 July 2020)

1. As a rule, 4 months before the starting date of the electoral period, which precedes the end of the Assembly’s mandate, the General Directorate of Civil Status, on the request of the CEC, shall send the total number of citizens, as well as the number of citizens for each region, based on the National Civil Status Register.

2. Calculation and approval of the number of mandates for each electoral zone shall be conducted within 15 days from receiving the data in accordance with point 1 of this Article.

3. In any case, the number of mandates for each electoral zone shall be approved no later than 6 months before the end of the Assembly’s mandate. The number of seats for each electoral zone shall not be revised in case of early elections.