First instance body dealing with electoral disputes

Article 11. (1) The Central Election Bureau shall make public the proposalsreceived for candidates, in the media, and shall post them, at itsheadquarters, within 24 hours of their registration.

(2) No later than 20 daysbefore the election date, the candidate, political parties, politicalalliances, and citizens may contest the registration of – or the failure toregister – the candidacy.The petition shall be submitted to the Central Election Bureau, which shallsend it to the Constitutional Court, for solution, together with the candidacyfile, within 24 hours.

(3) The ConstitutionalCourt shall solve the petition within 48 hours of its filing. The solutionshall be final and published in the Official Gazette of Romania, Part I.

(4) The next day after theexpiry of the term for solving petitions, as stipulated under paragraph (3),the Central Election Bureau shall notify the final registered candidacies, inthe order of their submittal, to constituency election bureaux.

Law on the Election of thePresident of Romania no. 370/2004 was published in the Official Gazette ofRomania, Part I, no. 887 of 29 September 2004 and amended by GovernmentEmergency Ordinance no. 77/2004, published in the Official Gazette of Romania,Part I, no. 920 of 9 October 2004. http://www.lexadin.nl/wlg/legis/nofr/eur/lxwerom.htm

Article 38. Objections as to theregistration or non- registration of a candidacy to the office of President ofRomania, as well as to hindrance of a political party or formation, or to acandidate, to carry out electoral campaigning under the condition of the law shallbe resolved by the Constitutional Court by a majority vote of the judges,within the deadlines stipulated by the Law for the Election of the President ofRomania.

Law No. 47/1992 on theOrganization and Operation of the Constitutional Court  http://www.ccr.ro/Legea-nr-471992