The electoral campaign for the first round of the presidential elections starts on Friday at midnight and will end on November 23. Romanians will choose the future president from among 14 candidates, their order on the ballots being established by the Central Electoral Bureau.
14 candidates entered the presidential race
The campaign for the first round of the presidential elections starts on Friday, at midnight, and will end on November 23, at 7:00. The first round takes place on November 24, and the second on December 8. Romanians will choose the new president from among 14 candidates, 10 proposed by minority parties or organizations and 4 independents. The order on the ballot was determined by drawing lots by the Central Electoral Bureau on October 10 and is as follows:
- Position no. 1: Elena-Valerica Lasconi – Save Romania Union
- Position no. 2: George-Nicolae Simion – Alliance for the Union of Romanians
- Position no. 3: Ion-Marcel Ciolacu – Social Democratic Party
- Position no. 4: Nicolae-Ionel Ciucă – National Liberal Party
- Position no. 5: Hunor Kelemen – Hungarian Democratic Union from Romania
- Position no. 6: Mircea-Dan Geoană – independent candidate
- Position no. 8: Alexandra-Beatrice Bertalan-Păcuraru – Alternative Party for National Dignity
- Position no. 9: Sebastian-Constantin Popescu – New Romania Party
- Position no. 10: Ludovic Orban – The Force of Right
- Position no. 11: Călin Georgescu – independent candidate
- Position no. 12: Cristian Diaconescu – independent candidate
- Position no. 13: Cristian-Vasile Terheș – Romanian National Conservative Party
- Position no. 14: Silviu Predoiu – National Action League Party
The Central Electoral Bureau established several measures for the conduct of the electoral campaign.
It is forbidden to give or promise to give benefits and rewards of any kind for participating in the vote.
The integrity of electoral boards, posters and other electoral propaganda materials placed in authorized places is ensured by the mayor, with the support of the local police or, in localities where the local police are not established, with the support of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
In the elections for the president of Romania in 2024, the mayors provide electoral competitors with electoral boards distinct from those placed to ensure electoral display places in the elections for the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies this year.
Each candidate can apply only one electoral poster on an electoral board. Electoral posters that combine colors in a sequence that reproduces the flag of Romania or another state are prohibited.
At the same time, the use for electoral purposes of vehicles inscribed or stuck with campaign slogans or images of candidates, as well as with other references to electoral competitors, the use of vehicles that broadcast audio materials, while moving or stationary, the organization of shows, celebrations, fireworks, the use of banners, meshes, advertising tents, advertising pavilions, mobile advertising panels, advertising flags, shields, advertising screens, directional advertising signs, self-supporting advertising structures, advertising means, advertising panels, special advertising projects, illuminated advertising and any other electoral materials that are not provided for in art. 36 para. (2) from Law no. 334/2006, republished, with subsequent amendments and additions.
The continuation of electoral propaganda after the end of the electoral campaign is prohibited. The continuation of electoral propaganda after the end of the campaign is understood as: displaying, launching or distributing electoral materials of any type, as well as broadcasting electoral messages in audio, visual or mixed format on digital screens located in public, private places or by means of specially arranged vehicles, which refer to the elections for the president of Romania in 2024; advising voters to vote or not to vote for certain candidates in these elections.
Also, after the end of the electoral campaign, the maintenance of electoral content related to the elections for the President of Romania in 2024, which was published during the electoral campaign on websites and online social media platforms and which is not the subject of a paid promotion for the display of said content after the end of the electoral campaign does not constitute a continuation of the electoral propaganda after the end of the campaign.
After the end of the electoral campaign for the Romanian presidential elections in 2024, the continuation of the electoral propaganda that refers exclusively and unequivocally to the elections for the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies this year does not constitute a continuation of the electoral propaganda after the end of the electoral campaign for the presidential elections of 2024, after as stated by BEC.
In the period between the end of the electoral campaign and the end of the voting, the organizers of events of any kind and their participants may not carry out electoral propaganda actions.
