A total of 61 reports of possible electoral incidents have been registered since the start of voting in Sunday's partial local elections, but no unusual situations have been identified within the remit of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MAI), ministry spokesperson Monica Dajbog said.
She informed, in a press statement delivered at the MAI headquarters on Sunday, that four fines were issued for photographing the ballot paper, for registering a person on supplementary lists although they had held their residence for less than six months and for breaching provisions prohibiting the presence of another person in the voting booth apart from the voter.
Investigations are also under way into 46 criminal offences.
'Notifications that were not within the competence of MAI structures were forwarded to electoral bureaux for resolution and checks are continuing for the others,' Dajbog said, giving several examples of contraventions or offences related to the electoral process.
In Bucharest's Sector 5, a gendarme on duty at a polling station intervened regarding the aggressive behaviour of a man. A preventive body search revealed an irritant tear gas spray on him. The man was taken to the police station for the drawing up of the incident report.
In the commune of Mihai Eminescu in Botosani County, police were notified that a man had allegedly offered money for a certain candidate to be voted. Investigations are continuing for the offence of voter corruption.
'In recent hours too, there have been cases of citizens presenting themselves to vote in their place of residence although they had established their residence less than six months ago, even though Law 115 of 2015 on the election of local public administration authorities stipulates that citizens who have established their residence less than six months before election day may exercise their right to vote only in the administrative-territorial unit in which they have their domicile,' Dajbog added.
The MAI representative also addressed information circulated in the public space that some permanent electoral rolls include deceased persons and explained that under current legislation the General Directorate for Population Records sends updates of lists of persons with voting rights to the Permanent Electoral Authority for generating the Electoral Register, at the request of the AEP, twenty days before the election round.
'Thus the latest set of data sent to the Permanent Electoral Authority [AEP] was on 25 November 2025, containing deaths recorded in the National Register of Population Records up to 22 November 2025. Consequently there may be isolated cases mainly concerning deaths recorded after 22 November 2025,' Dajbog explained.
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