Draft on political affiliation of local elected officials published on Development Ministry website

The draft ordinance that would allow local elected officials to opt, within ten days since its coming into force, for the political party they want to be part of, without losing their mandates gained in the previous election, was published on the website of the Ministry of Regional Development and Public Administration (MDRAP).

According to the aforementioned source, the draft emergency ordinance regulates some measures regarding the functioning of the local public administration.

"Within ten days since the coming into force of the present emergency ordinance, mayors and presidents of county councils, local councillors and county councillors, as well as the former candidates that didn't win the elections becoming thus alternates of the mayors, presidents of county councils, of local and county councillors, may express in written form their option regarding the political party they want to be part of, without the local elected officials losing their status they had gained in the elections", the document published on Tuesday on the MDRAP website shows.

Mayors and chairmen of county councils, local councillors and county councillors, as well as their alternates (former candidates that didn't win the elections) are thus required to either submit a written statement to the political party or the national minority organisation, as the case dictates, they want to be part of, or they may submit it to the deliberative authority of the administrative-territorial unit/subdivision in which they ran, according to the draft normative act.

Furthermore, mayors and chairmen of county councils, local councillors and county councillors, as well as former candidates that were designated as their alternates, who choose not to submit the...