Interim President Meets Election Officials at Cotroceni

By Romania Journal Last updated Mar 17, 2025

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Interim President Ilie Bolojan has met at the Cotroceni Palace on Monday at 10:00 with representatives of the institutions and public authorities responsible for organizing the presidential elections, the Presidential Administration announced.

“Preparations for the elections are on schedule, both domestically and internationally,” the Presidential Administration announced after the meeting at the Cotroceni Palace. Also, “voting spaces abroad are being identified in the diaspora, so that there will be the same number of polling stations as in the previous elections.”

The meeting on Monday was attended by Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu, Deputy Prime Ministers Marian Neacşu and Cătălin Predoiu, State Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ana Cristina Tinca, Acting President of the Permanent Electoral Authority, Zsombor Vajda, Vice President of the National Audiovisual Council, Valentin Alexandru Jucan, President of the National Authority for Administration and Regulation in Communications, Valeriu Zgonea, President of the National Council for Combating Discrimination, Csaba Ferenc Asztalos, and Director of the National Cyber Security Directorate, Dan Cîmpean.

March 15, 2025, 24:00, was the deadline for registering candidacies for this year’s presidential elections, while Wednesday, March 19, is the last day on which registered candidates can submit a declaration on their own responsibility to the Central Electoral Bureau for renouncing their candidacy. The electoral campaign for the 2025 presidential elections begins on Friday, April 4, 2025, and will last until Saturday, May 3, the day before voting in Romania. The first day of voting abroad will be on May 2, 2025.

The head of the Presidential Chancellery, Cristian Diaconescu, stated on Sunday evening that the Presidency will be involved in ensuring a democratic and fair electoral process and specified that what happened in the presidential elections at the end of last year, the result of a hybrid attack, must not be repeated, as it would be an extremely serious problem. Diaconescu added that the interim president, Ilie Bolojan, ensures that any intention related to interference in the elections in May will be thwarted.

Cristian Diaconescu was asked on Sunday, on Digi 24, why the meeting at Cotroceni Palace convened by interim president Ilie Bolojan with the prime minister and the heads of institutions with responsibilities in elections was necessary.

“President Bolojan, from the beginning of his mandate, has emphasized very clearly, within the limits of his constitutional and legal powers – the Presidency of Romania will get involved to ensure a democratic, fair electoral process, from a legal point of view. What happened last year, the result of a hybrid attack, must not be repeated, it would be an extremely serious problem as far as we are concerned. So, tomorrow they will meet precisely for inter-institutional coordination, there being legal powers in connection with the operationalization of such a deemer both at the level of the Presidential Administration, the Supreme Council for National Defense, and at the level of governmental institutions. And for this approach to materialize, obviously, the inter-institutional dialogue must work”, stated Cristian Diaconescu.

He was also asked if Ilie Bolojan was confident that the elections would take place correctly, without major Russian involvement. “The lessons that needed to be learned have been learned. From this point of view, President Bolojan ensures from all points of view that any intention related to interference in the May elections will be countered”, Cristian Diaconescu conveyed.

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