Voting in the Diaspora: The schedule of polling stations has been changed
- The schedule of polling stations in the Diaspora, which will be open for the presidential elections, has been modified.
- The polling stations will be open from Friday, from 07:00, and voting will be completed on Sunday, at 21:00, Romanian time.
- By exception, the program can be extended by a maximum of three hours.
Voting in the Diaspora: The schedule of polling stations has been changed
“A peculiarity of voting abroad… So far, voting, if we remember correctly, starts at 12 o’clock, local time, in the polling stations abroad. Starting from Friday, voting will start at 7 am local, it will end at 9 pm local, Saturday from 7 am local to 9 pm local, Sunday, May 4, when the vote also happens in the country, here a change has occurred – voting starts in polling stations abroad at 7 a.m. local time, but ends either at 9 p.m. local time, if we are on the preceding meridian, to the east of Romania, the vote closed, as has happened so far, at 9 p.m., but what does it mean to the west of Romania, on the other time shifts, the vote will close at 9 p.m., Romanian time. This means that if we go to an extreme in the United States, at a polling station, on Sunday, May 4, the vote will close when it is 9 p.m. in Romania”, says the Government spokesman, Mihai Constantin.
He specifies that this measure was adopted at the proposal of the Permanent Electoral Authority, “precisely in order not to leave that gap of time from influencing the vote when it closed in Romania, but remained open abroad, in the sections that are west of Romania, in the related time zones”.
“There is again a provision valid both in the country and abroad, at 9 p.m., when the polls close, it is quite likely and clearly possible that there are people in the polling station who still want to vote, but also outside polling station to have queues. They happened, it is possible to happen now. Well, legally there is the possibility that the voting in those polling stations can be extended, by three hours at most, until the middle of the 18th in Romania, that is, so that those who are in the perimeter of the voting stations can exercise this right” , concludes Constantine.
Source: www.mediafax.ro
