DOCUMENT PSD plan to postpone parliamentary elections / Why do the Social Democrats want the elections to be held in March? – Politics

According to sources at HotNews.ro, the Social Democrats have made calculations and a possible postponement of the parliamentary elections for three months will help them get a better score. More precisely, PSD is based on the fact that the government’s decisions not to increase children’s pensions and allowances, as well as the economic measures to be taken in the next period, will be negatively reflected in the spring of PNL. Thus, PSD is betting that it could get a better score in the spring parliamentary elections.

The PSD discussed the possibility of presenting a bill proposing the postponement of the parliamentary elections.

The Social Democrats have been waiting for a decision from the Constitutional Court on an appeal against a bill that states that Parliament is the one that sets the date of parliamentary elections. The bill was challenged by the Government in the Constitutional Court, and a few days ago, the CCR judges rejected the notification and say that Parliament is the one that sets the date of the elections.

The law is currently on the table of President Klaus Iohannis, and he has the leverage to block its enactment.

In this context, the independent deputy Adrian Dohotaru known in Parliament for his relations with the PSD presented a bill on Friday that proposes the postponement of the parliamentary elections until March 2021.

The bill was presented to the Senate just one day after PSD president Marcel Ciolacu told Antena3 that in the context of the coronavirus epidemic if the postponement of parliamentary elections in Parliament is proposed, the PSD will support this proposal and will vote to postpone the election.

• Art. 1.- The date of the elections for the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies, organized as a consequence of the termination of the mandate of the elected Parliament in 2016, will be set on Sunday, March 14, 2021.
• Art. 2. – The electoral period of the elections foreseen in art. 1 starts on January 13, 2021.
• Art. 3. – Within a maximum period of 3 days from the date specified in art. 2, by decision of the Government, the calendar of actions within the electoral period of the elections to the Senate and Chamber of Deputies provided for in art. one.
• Art. 4. – (1) They are and continue to be valid for elections organized on the date specified in art. 1, the following electoral acts and operations drawn up and executed for the elections to the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies scheduled for December 6, 2020:
• a) The lists of supporters of political parties, citizen organizations belonging to national minorities, political alliances, electoral alliances and independent candidates, which may be submitted, in accordance with the law, to the Central Electoral Office and the electoral offices of the constituency until the date established by art. . 3;
• b) Applications for registration as a voter by correspondence and as a voter from abroad, formulated in accordance with art. 4 par. (4) of Law no. 288/2015 on voting by mail, as well as the modification and complementation of Law no. 208/2015 on the election of the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies, as well as for the organization and operation of the Permanent Electoral Authority, with subsequent modifications and terminations, and art. 42 par. (2) of Law no. 208/2015 on the election of the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies, as well as for the organization and operation of the Permanent Electoral Authority, with subsequent modifications and terminations;
• c) The lists of supporters that are submitted to the Central Electoral Office and the electoral offices of the constituencies, which may be updated and / or modified, until the date established according to art. 3;
• d) the establishment and completion of the Central Electoral Office and constituency electoral offices;
• e) The decisions of the Central Electoral Office and the electoral district offices through which lists of supporters, candidates and electoral alliances were registered.
• (2) The period of registration as a voter by correspondence and as a voter from abroad for the elections organized on the date provided in art. 1 begins on the date of entry into force of this law and ends on the expiration date of the terms provided in art. 4 par. (4) of Law no. 288/2015, with subsequent modifications and completions, and art. 42 par. (2) of Law no. 208/2015, with subsequent modifications and completions.
• (3) As of the effective date of this law, the activity of the Central Electoral Office and the constituency electoral offices constituted for the Senate and Chamber of Deputies elections on December 6, 2020 will be suspended to date. provided for in art. two.
• (4) During the suspension of the activity of the Central Electoral Office and the electoral district offices, all the acts and documents received, prepared and maintained by them will be kept by the Permanent Electoral Authority.
• (5) Delivery of the upon receipt of the acts and documents provided for in para. (4) will be based on minutes.
• Art. 5.- The assets acquired for the Senate and Chamber of Deputies elections scheduled for December 6, 2020 until the date of entry into force of this law will be duly conserved and preserved by the public authorities that acquired them, in accordance with in order to use them for the elections organized on the date specified in art. one.
• Art. 6. – The amounts assigned according to art. 1 par. (1) of Government Decision no. 755/2020 on the establishment of the necessary expenses for the preparation, organization and conduct of the elections for the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies in 2020, the Ministry of the Interior, the Permanent Electoral Authority, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the National Agency of Integrity, the National Council for the study of the Security Archives, the Special Telecommunications Service, as well as the General Secretariat of Government, for the National Institute of Statistics and that they are not compromised and / or not used to date Once this law comes into effect, it will be returned to the Government Reserve Fund. , within 3 days following the date of entry into force of the law.
• Art. 7. – On the date of entry into force of this law, the following shall be repealed:
• a) Government Decision no. 744/2020 on the establishment of the date of the elections for the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies from 2020, published in the Official Gazette of Romania, Part I, no. 816 of September 4, 2020.
• b) Government Decision no. 745/2020 for the approval of the calendar of actions within the electoral period of the elections for the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies from 2020 published in the Official Gazette of Romania, Part I, no. 817 of September 4, 2020.

The Constitution provides in article 63:

• (1) The Chamber of Deputies and the Senate are elected for a period of 4 years, which is extended by law in a state of mobilization, war, siege or emergency, until its termination.
• (2) Elections for the Chamber of Deputies and for the Senate shall be held within a maximum period of 3 months from the expiration of the mandate or from the dissolution of Parliament.
• (3) The newly elected Parliament will meet, at the convocation of the President of Romania, within 20 days following the elections.
• (4) The mandate of the Chambers is extended until the legal meeting of the new Parliament. During this period, the Constitution cannot be revised and organic laws cannot be adopted, modified or repealed.