§ Electoral Code art. 174Confirmation of the legality of elections and validation of mandates

Confirmation of the legality of elections and validation of mandates
(1) The electoral constituency councils of the first-level administrative-territorial units
shall submit minutes on the totalisation of the election results in the electoral constituency
councils of the second-level administrative-territorial units, as appropriate, to the Central
Electoral Commission.
(2) Electoral constituency councils, no later than 10 days after the date of receipt of the
reports, minutes and other electoral documents from the electoral bureaux, as appropriate,
from the first-level electoral constituency councils, but no earlier than the final settlement by
the electoral bodies and courts of appeals lodged in accordance with established procedures,
shall validate or invalidate by means of a decision the legality of the elections in that electoral
constituency and transmit it, within 24 hours after adoption, to the Central Electoral
Commission and the second-level electoral constituency councils concerned, which shall
publish the final results.
(3) Simultaneously with the confirmation of the legality of the elections, the respective
electoral constituency councils shall declare the candidates elected, award and validate the
mandates of the councillors and elected mayors, confirm the list of alternate candidates, with
the adoption of the relevant decisions. The person elected both as mayor and local councillor
shall give his or her consent to be validated in one of those positions to the electoral
constituency council.
(4) The local council shall be deemed legally constituted after the validation of the
mandates of at least 2/3 of the total number of councillors.
(5) The badge of locally elected official shall be executed and issued in accordance
with the procedure laid down by Law No 256/2004 approving the Regulation of the card of the
locally elected official and the Regulation of the card of the locally elected official.