A number of 125 polling places will be established abroad for the parliamentary elections of February 24, 2019, according to a decision approved by the Government, IPN reports.

The largest number of polling places will be opened in Italy (29), Romania and the U.S (by 12), the Russian Federation (11), France (seven), Portugal and Spain (by five). Four polling places will be established in the UK, by three in Ukraine, Canada and Turkey and by two in Israel, Belgium, Czech Republic, Belarus, Ireland, and Germany.

By one polling place will be set up in Greece, China, Azerbaijan, Poland, Sweden, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Austria, Bulgaria, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Qatar, Japan, Croatia, Georgia, the United Arab Emirates, and Norway.

Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration Tudor Ulianovski said by 25 more polling places will be established abroad compared with the presidential elections of 2016.

To avoid the situations witnessed at the 2016 elections, when some of the polling places used up the ballots, the total number of ballots that can be distributed to a polling place was raised from 3,000 to 5,000.

The polling places in the country and abroad are opened at least 35 days before the election day.