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PresidentialElection2025/Election campaign to start with 11 candidates running for president

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The election campaign for the presidential election starts on Friday at 00:00 and ends May 3 at 7:00.

For 30 days, the eleven candidates registered in the race for the Cotroceni Presidential Palace will try to convince the voters to vote for them on May 4.

During the election campaign, only the following types of propaganda materials are allowed:

- Electoral posters with a maximum dimension of 500 mm for one side and 350 mm for the other side; electoral posters calling for an electoral meeting will have one side measuring 400 mm and the other side 250 mm, and they will be placed in designated areas for posting.

- Audio or video electoral propaganda materials, broadcast by audiovisual media.

- Advertising in the print media.

- Online electoral propaganda materials.

- Brochures, leaflets, and other printed materials.

All political advertising materials (electoral propaganda materials) must be identified in accordance with the Permanent Electoral Authority Decision no. 9/2025 on the promotion, distribution, publication, or editing of political advertising materials used in the electoral campaign for the 2025 Romanian presidential election.

During the campaign, mayors will provide candidates with distinct electoral boards from those used for other types of elections. Each candidate can apply only one electoral poster on each electoral board.

An electoral board refers to a continuous flat surface or a set of flat surfaces arranged in a compact area or perimetre, designed to ensure electoral display as determined by mayor order.

Political advertising materials (electoral propaganda materials) that combine colors in a sequence resembling the flag of Romania or another state are prohibited, regardless of the publication medium, except in the case where the color sequence is reproduced as the electoral sign of the electoral competitor.

The use of vehicles marked or wrapped with campaign slogans or images of candidates, as well as any other references to electoral competitors, is prohibited for electoral purposes. Also prohibited are vehicles that broadcast audio materials while moving or stationary, the organisation of shows, parties, fireworks displays, the use of banners, mesh ads, advertising tents, pavilions, mobile advertising boards, advertising flags, screens, directional advertising signs, self-supporting advertising structures, advertising means, advertising boards, special advertising projects, and illuminated advertising, as well as any other electoral materials not specified in Article 36, paragraph (2) of Law no. 334/2006, republished, with subsequent amendments and completions.

On the eve of the voting day and on the voting day itself, the removal of political advertising materials (electoral propaganda materials) of any kind from the polling station building and from the building itself will be ordered by the president of the electoral bureau of the polling station and carried out by the persons designated by the mayor, immediately.

According to the Central Electoral Bureau, continuing electoral propaganda after the end of the electoral campaign is prohibited.

In the event of a second-round election, the campaign will begin on the date the results of the first round are validated by the Constitutional Court and will end on May 17 at 7:00.

The Central Electoral Bureau (BEC) determined, on March 22, through a draw, the order of candidates' registration on the paper ballot for the presidential election in May.

According to BEC, the order of the 11 candidates on the ballot is as follows:

- Position 1 - George Nicolae Simion (Alliance for the Unity of Romanians)
- Position 2 - George Crin Laurentiu Antonescu (Romania Forward Electoral Alliance)
- Position 3 - Elena Valerica Lasconi (Save Romania Union)
- Position 4 - Cristian Vasile Terhes (Romanian National Conservative Party)
- Position 5 - Marcela Lavinia Sandru (Social Liberal Humanist Party)
- Position 6 - Victor Viorel Ponta (independent candidate)
- Position 7 - Sebastian Constantin Popescu (New Romania Party)
- Position 8 - Silviu Predoiu (National Action League Party)
- Position 9 - John-Ion Banu-Muscel (independent candidate)
- Position 10 - Petru Daniel Funeriu (independent candidate)
- Position 11 - Nicusor-Daniel Dan (independent candidate)

Five candidates - Elena Lasconi, George Simion, Cristian Terhes, Silviu Predoiu and Sebastian-Constantin Popescu - also ran in last year's presidential election. The Save Romania Union leader managed to reach the second round with independent Calin Georgescu, but the election was voided by the Constitutional Court. AGERPRES (RO - writing by: Georgiana Tanasescu; EN - writing by: Adina Panaitescu)

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