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The election campaign for the parliamentary elections has ended on Saturday at 7:00. A number of 6,477 candidates, out of whom 4,251 for the Deputies' Chamber and 2,226 for the Senate, engaged in the election race for the 11 December ballot, according to the Central Electoral Bureau.
Over 18 million Romanian citizens are expected to the ballot boxes to cast their vote, both in the country and abroad. In the diaspora, the voting has already begun, as the Romanian citizens with the residence or domicile abroad who registered with the Electoral Roll received the paper ballots through the Romanian Post Company.
The envelopes with the votes-by-mail are centralised at the 43rd Constituency Electoral Bureau for the Romanian citizens with the domicile or residence abroad.
For the election unfolding electoral constituencies were established in the 41 counties, one constituency in the Municipality of Bucharest, and one constituency for the Romanian citizens with the domicile or residence abroad. The total number of constituencies is 43.
For organising the elections, the total amount of 227.7 million lei was approved, and the necessary funds are provided in the budgets of the Interior Ministry, the Foreign Affairs Ministry, the Permanent Electoral Authority, the Special Telecommunications Service, the National Institute of Statistics, on expense categories.
