The Central Election Commission (CEC) compiled a list of 102 persons who cannot be registered as election contenders for the November 5 local elections or who are to be excluded from the race if they had been already registered. The list was transmitted to the district electoral councils of the first and second levels.

Contacted by IPN for details, the head of the Commission’s Public Relations and Mass Media Division Rodica Sîrbu said that following the ordinance made by the Commission for Exceptional Situations, the CEC received information about the persons who cannot run in elections from the General Police Inspectorate, the National Anticorruption Center, the Security and Intelligence Service and the Prosecutor General’s Office. The list compiled based on this information was passed on to the electoral bodies.

“The list cannot be made public for at least two reasons. First of all, it goes to the presumption of innocence. Also, there is personal data,” noted Rodica Sîrbu.

On October 4, the Commission for Exceptional Situations approved the individualization criteria referring to persons who cannot run in the November 5 elections, stipulating the possibility of challenging these administrative decisions in the Appeals Court.

Meanwhile, Parliament gave a second reading to the amendments to the Election Code. The new provisions stipulate the basic criteria based on which members of a party that was declared unconstitutional will be banned from running in elections. It goes to, persons who were classed as suspects or were accused or found guilty of committing offenses that were used as an argument by the Constitutional Court when the party was declared unconstitutional, and persons who were excluded from the electoral race earlier, following the deliberate violation of the principle of legal financing, or were put on international sanctions lists – arguments that were mentioned in the Constitutional Court’s decision.