President of the Permanent Electoral Authority (AEP) Toni Grebla informed on Tuesday that citizens will not be able to vote in the country with a simple tourist passport, but only with an identity card or other equivalent document.
He told a press conference that citizens can only vote in the 9 June elections with a document issued by the Romanian state, mentioning that a distinction must be made between elections in the country and those abroad.
"In the country, the range is quite wide, I mean identity cards, electronic identity cards, provisional identity cards, diplomatic passports, service passports, in all its variants, and students at military schools can also vote on the basis of their service book," explained Toni Grebla.
According to him, "abroad, Romanian citizens must prove that they have citizenship and residence abroad and this can be done depending on the host country."
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has a list of documents that each country issues to foreign nationals who are temporarily or permanently on its territory.
Asked whether citizens in the country can vote with a simple passport, the AEP president said: "With a simple passport they cannot vote because the legislator probably wanted to avoid that. The simple passport, at the same time, is with the citizen, like the identity card and then he has to choose and it is the easiest thing in the country to vote with the identity card or other equivalent document, without the simple tourist passport."
"They can vote in the country with their diplomatic or service passports," added Toni Grebla.
He also said that the Ministry of Internal Affairs will extend the opening hours of the centres for issuing identity cards for citizens whose documents have expired, mentioning that they will be open even on the Saturday before voting day.
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