local polls

Victor Paul Dobre, state secretary with Romania’s Interior Ministry asked prefects to ban the consumption of alcoholic drinks within a radius of 500 meters of polling stations, according to a decision of the Central Electoral Office.

The electoral campaign for the local elections in Romania on June 1 starts Friday, May 2, and closes May 31, 7:00 local hour.

Presidents of county councils will be elected under the uninominal voting system at the local elections in June 2008, in compliance with the law introducing the uninominal voting system, of which the government took note, government spokeswoman Camelia Spataru told MEDIAFAX Thursday.