The Merging of Elections in the Jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court of Romania
The Merging of Elections in the Jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court of Romania

Summary/Abstract: The simultaneous organization of various types of elections is a current issue, since several European states, including Romania, have recently organized elections in this format. Generally, when national authorities resort to this method of conducting elections, they introduce regulations into the domestic legal order which derogate from the norms in force, raising the suspicion that such regulations, which come into force shortly before the elections, often lead to the restriction of electoral rights, with an emphasis on the right to vote and the right to be elected, to favor those who adopt them or to place difficulties on the authorities called upon for their application.1 After becoming part of the legal reality, the respective regulations end up being contested before the constitutional court, citing both the violation of electoral rights – a category of rights to which the constituent legislator has granted additional protection compared to other rights and to which the constitutional court shows special attention, as well as the ambiguity of the respective regulations.2 This paper analyses the relevant jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court of Romania regarding the merging of various types of elections.

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