Who administers direct democracy mechanisms at the national level?

ElectoralCode of Moldova (Revised 2012)

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Article 157.Submission and Verification of Signature Collecting Sheets 

(1)No later than on the last day of the signature collection term, the initiativegroup shall draw up a protocol indicating the number of collected signatures,the date when initiative group was registered, and the date when the collectionof signatures was concluded. The protocol signed by the members of theinitiative group together with the signature collecting sheets shall besubmitted to the Central Election Commission.

(2)Within 15 days of signature collecting sheets submission, the Central ElectionCommission shall check authenticity of the signatures (all of them or atrandom) on the submitted sheets.

Signaturesby persons who have signed twice or more times shall be excluded. Signaturecollecting sheets found in breach of Article 156, par. (1) thereof shall beconsidered  null and void.. Uponverification of signature collecting sheets, the CEC shall draw up a protocoland adopt a decision on initiating the referendum.

(3)In the event that the required number of signatures was not submitted, the CECshall adopt

adecision rejecting holding the referendum and cancelling registration of thecitizen initiative group.

(4)Protocol on the verification of signature collecting sheets, verified signaturecollecting

sheets,and the CEC' decision on referendum initiating shall be  submitted tothe Permanent

Bureauof Parliament within three days.

Article 158.Electoral Districts, Precincts, Electoral Councils and Bureaus

(1)For administration of the republican referendum, the CEC shall establishadministrative

electoraldistricts, which shall correspond to the second level territorial-administrativeunits of

theRepublic of Moldova, and district electoral councils pursuant to the provisionsof the Article

27hereof, to be correspondingly applied.

(2)The responsibilities of the district electoral councils shall be those providedin Article 28 of this Code, to be correspondingly applied.

(3)Electoral district shall be divided into precincts, pursuant to Articles 29 and29¹ of this Code, to be correspondingly applied. A precinctelectoral bureau shall be established for each precinct and exercise itsresponsibilities, pursuant to Articles 29, 29¹ and 30 of this Code,to be correspondingly applied.

(4)Powers of district electoral councils and precinct electoral bureaus shallexpire upon the confirmation of republican referendum results by theConstitutional Court.

(5)Where the electoral district stands for only one locality and only oneprecinct, no precinct electoral bureau shall be established, itsresponsibilities shall be exercised by the district electoral council.