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Approximately 45,000 policemen, gendarmes, firemen, border policemen and workers with other structures will ensure on Sunday the public order and the legality required for the election conduct. At the same time, the Interior Ministry (MAI) staff will check all notifications concerning contraventions or offenses related to the voting process, MAI Spokesperson Monica Dajbog announced on Saturday.
She pointed out that on the day of voting, starting at 8:00, periodical public communications will be made, referring to the MAI structures' activities and the situation of electoral incidents. Dajbog also pointed out that the MAI structures will continue to ensure, all though the day of Saturday, the security of the transports to the polling stations of the paper ballots and the other materials required for voting. The first transports were done on Friday under the guard of the Gendarmerie and Police staff. "In accordance with the provisions of Law 208 of 2015, on the election of the Senate and the Deputies' Chamber, the polling station electoral bureau president and the other members of the electoral bureau must be present at the polling station headquarters today at 18:00, having the obligation to verify the materials required for voting. The electoral bureau president decides the measures to ensure the order and correctness of the voting operations, as well to remove the electoral propaganda materials of any kind from and outside the building where the polling station is. Moreover, he/she decides the set-up of the guard posts around the polling station building," Dajbog pointed out.
According to the MAI official, upon leaving the polling station the electoral bureau president seals all the entrance ways to the station, as leaving the premises with the control stamp, stamps with the 'VOTED' inscription, paper ballots or electoral rolls is forbidden, and during the night the polling stations remain under the guard of the MAI teams. According to other data supplied by the MAI Spokesperson, on election day, the activity of the polling station electoral bureau starts at 6:00, the president having the obligation to verify the ballot boxes, the paper ballots and the stamps. Voting will begin at 7:00 and will end at 21:00.
The Romanian citizens with the domicile or residence in Romania, who on the voting day are in the country, can exercise their right to vote based on one of the following papers: identity card, temporary identity card, paper identity card, diplomatic passport, electronic diplomatic passport, service passport, electronic service passport and military service card, in the case of military schools students.
The schedule of community public services for the people's record was extended this week to come to the aid of those who want to go to vote on Sunday and don't have valid identity papers. Moreover, on Saturday public audience hours are until 16:00, and on Sunday, until 21:00, except for a few localities where the public hours will end at 20:00. In order to prevent the occurrence of some serious incidents during voting, firemen are conducting on Saturday training activities with the polling stations' staff concerning the modalities of evacuating persons and materials, in case of some emergency situations.
This week, the Inspectorate for Emergency Situations (ISU) inspectors completed the fire prevention actions in all premises where polling stations are set-up, having solved over 5,400 irregularities. Following these check-ups, a number of 6,083 warnings and 11 fines were enforced, amounting to 15,000 lei.
