The foreign ministry made public the guidelines for postal voting for the presidential and parliamentary elections due this year.
This year, the Romanian parliamentary elections will be held under new legal provisions.
By the end of the week, the Romanian Government will submit to Parliament a plan of measures on postal voting.
A look back at the main developments in Romania this past week
Romania’s Constitutional Court has unanimously ruled that the postal voting law is constitutional and rejected the appeal filed by some MPs. Passed...
The postal voting law is constitutional and can be enforced starting with the 2016 parliamentary elections.
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A look at the headline-making events this past week
The Senate has passed the draft law on postal voting.
The Social Democrats have promised, on behalf of the ruling coalition, that the Electoral Code Committee would draft the postal voting bill by next week.
Liberal MPs have gone on a token strike, targeting the adoption of postal voting, while in turn the Social-Democrats criticize the Liberals for not promoting the bill while they held the presidency of the Election Code Committee.
Following the meeting on Thursday with the MPs representing the Diaspora in the Romanian Parliament, the head of state, Klaus Iohannis, is not sure the law on postal voting will be adopted by the end of the current parliamentary session.
