ELECTORAL OFFENCES AFTER THE ENTRANCE INTO FORCE OF THE NEW CRIMINAL CODE

The entrance into force of the new Criminal Code – namely of the Law No 286/2009 – on the 1st of February 2014 has brought a series of modifications in the constitutive content of the offences stated by the old Criminal Code, also introducing some new ones. Also, this new legislative document took over a series of offences stated, until its entrance into force, by many special laws, grouping them in its content. Under this scope was registered the introduction in the new Criminal Code of the electoral offences – offences which until the 1st of February 2014 were stated by the special laws to which we shall refer in this paper