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The president of the AEP, Constantin Mitulețu-Buică, told HotNews.ro that it is about 14,000 envelopes with votes that did not reach the polling stations of the polling stations.
The head of the AEP explained to HotNews.ro that 35,880 Romanians voted by correspondence, arriving at the destination, that is, the electoral colleges of the electoral colleges abroad, the voting envelopes of 21,600 people. Therefore, at this time 14,280 envelopes are “lost” en route.
Mitulețu-Buică says that he asked the Romanian Post for explanations and that he expects to receive a reply before 7:00 pm when a new meeting of the Central Electoral Office takes place.
- “At today’s meeting of the Central Electoral Office, we asked the Romanian Post to inform us how many envelopes are left, how many envelopes the citizens have received and how many have returned with the vote. Explain if these envelopes are in transit.
- There are two options: either the envelopes were not sent by some citizens who registered their option to vote by mail, or they left and are currently blocked in transit in the host states ”, declared the head of the AEP for HotNews.ro.
The voting by correspondence envelopes reach the diplomatic missions, and from there to the offices of the polling stations in the host countries, as well as the 3 voting by correspondence offices organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Romania, Buică explained, emphasizing that there is confusion that the envelopes should have reached the AEP.
He specified that all the envelopes with the vote by mail should have arrived before midnight on December 3, and everything that did not arrive by then “can no longer be handled as a vote, and the citizen must go to vote at an electoral college “. voting “.
- Contacted on Saturday by HotNews.ro, Romanian Post officials specified that they are preparing and will soon arrive with more explanations related to the voting-by-mail situation.
USR-PLUS seeks clarification from the Government
“We received thousands of notifications from Romanians in the diaspora stating that their vote by mail did not reach the AEP. They understood their civic duty to vote and they did so safely using the postal vote. Now they are AEP tells us that almost the half of the votes by correspondence were lost We are not interested in a responsibility game between AEP and Poşta Română, we want a clear answer that these two institutions owe to Romanian citizens (…) We urge the Government, the Ministry of Relations Foreign Affairs and the Central Electoral Bureau to urgently take all public information measures so that citizens whose vote did not reach the AEP know and find solutions to vote physically ”- is the message published on Saturday on the Facebook page of the USR PLUS Alliance.
Senator from the USR diaspora Radu Mihail also sent a letter this Saturday to the Electoral Bureau of Constituency 43 to ask for explanations about the votes by correspondence of citizens from outside the country who did not reach their destination.
I ask you for the following clarifications: how many envelopes have arrived and been registered in Romania, how many envelopes have arrived and have been registered in locations abroad, what measures do you have in mind to check if all the envelopes that arrived at their destination have been registered What measures? Take into account that the nearly twenty thousand citizens who requested to vote by mail but were notified that their vote was not informed of other ways that they can go to vote today and tomorrow at any of the polling stations. Vote outside the borders? Asked the senator.
The Romanian Post announced on November 4, 2020 that it started sending documents for Romanians who will vote by mail., with almost 36,000 envelopes that should have reached 37 countries, including distant destinations such as Haiti, Cayman Islands, Trinidad and Tobago or Myanmar.
