The Permanent Electoral Authority (AEP) announced on Monday that, as of February 28, 21,552 people had been removed from the Electoral Register this year.
“The Permanent Electoral Authority (AEP) informs the public that the total number of citizens with the right to vote registered in the Electoral Register on February 28, 2026 is 19,032,036, 3,789 fewer than on January 31, 2026, when 19,035,825 Romanian voters were registered in the Electoral Register.
The differences appear as a result of the current operations carried out by the mayors in the Electoral Register related to the administrative-territorial units led by them”reports AEP.
According to AEP, in the period 1–28 February 2026, 21,552 people were removed from the Electoral Register: 21,362 due to death and 190 due to prohibition. At the same time, 55 people regained their electoral rights after the expiration of the erasure period.
Between February 1–28, 2026, 17,708 young people turned 18 and were automatically registered in the Electoral Register by the Permanent Electoral Authority (AEP). In total, 17,978,282 Romanian voters are domiciled in the country, and 1,053,754 are domiciled abroad and hold a CRDS passport.
“According to Law no. 208/2015, the Electoral Register is a national IT system for recording and updating the identification data of Romanian citizens with the right to vote and the information regarding their rounding at the polling stations. The Electoral Register is structured by counties, municipalities, cities, communes, for Romanian citizens with domicile or residence in the country.
The persons authorized to carry out operations in the Electoral Register including Romanian citizens domiciled or residing in the country are the mayors or the persons appointed by the mayors, by provision, according to the law”, AEP concludes.
AEP President: over 14,000 people over 100 years old in the Electoral Register
In January, the president of AEP, Adrian Țuțuianu, said that there are over 14,000 people over 100 years old in the Electoral Register.
We have in the Electoral Register, between the ages of 80 and 89, about 734,195 people, I say about because the number changes almost daily, there are people who have died or people who have left the Electoral Register, who have forbidden the right to vote and be elected.
A situation that needs to be corrected is that of those over 90 years old, between 90 and 99 years old, 133,995 people in the Electoral Register. I suspect that many of these people are actually no longer alive, but they did not operate in the registry because we did not have the necessary elements, i.e. they are not registered according to the law, civil status documents, death certificates and a situation that was commented on in the electoral context“, declared the president of AEP.
