Romania will organize local elections on June 10 this year, according to Mediafax, quoting official sources. Last year, Emil Boc's pre-protest Government, assumed responsibility in the Parliament for organizing joint local and Parliamentary elections. The country's Constitutional Court however ruled that joint elections would be unlawful.

The then Government said joint elections would save the country some EUR 21 million, bringing down the cost of organizing elections to EUR 22 million. The Social Democratic Party, an opposition party that opposed the joint elections, said changing election law five months prior to organizing votes would violate European laws.

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