The Supreme Court rejected Mircea Geoană’s request to appoint a representative in the BEC, but admitted the referral to the Constitutional Court regarding some articles of Law 370/2004.
Mircea Geoană at the polling station
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court rejected an appeal filed by Mircea Geoană, an independent candidate in the presidential elections, in which he requested the annulment of a decision of the Central Electoral Bureau by which his request to have a representative in the BEC was refused, according to agerpres.
On October 11, Mircea Geoană proposed the appointment of a representative within the BEC, but his request was rejected two days later. The Central Electoral Bureau maintains that the provisions of Law 370/2004 for the election of the President of Romania do not grant independent candidates the possibility of appointing a representative in the BEC, but only the parliamentary and non-parliamentary parties that proposed candidates.
Mircea Geoană appealed the BEC’s decision in court, but his appeal was rejected. On the other hand, the Supreme Court admitted a request by Geoana regarding the referral to the Constitutional Court with the exception of the unconstitutionality of the provisions of several articles of Law no. 370/2004, provisions that refer to the manner of setting up the Central Electoral Bureau and the county electoral bureaus.
