The competence to set the date of elections and the practice of merging elections in the Romanian Constitutional Court's case law

"By organizing at the same time the elections for the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate and those for the local public administration authorities, citizens will have to perform a much more complex task – expressing their choice on 6 ballot papers –, [...] The complexity of voting operations may have the effect of excluding from voting voters who, independently of their will, will not be able to vote during the time allocated for voting, until the polls close." (Decision No 51 of January 25, 2012)