A Romanian woman casts her ballot for the European Parliament elections on May 25, 2014 | Daniel Mihailescu/AFP via Getty Images Romanian election pits three men with same name against each other Vasile Cepoi takes on Vasile Cepoi, Vasile Cepoi and someone whose name isn’t Vasile Cepoi.

Voters in the village of Drăguşeni, in northeast Romania, can choose from four candidates in this weekend's mayoral election. Three of whom are called Vasile Cepoi.

One of the Cepois, a member of former prime minister's Victor Ponta's Social Democrat Party (PSD), is running for a fourth term as mayor of the village of 2,500 people, the Associated Press reported Friday.

The three Cepois are not related, Viorel Munteanu, a town hall official, was quoted as saying. The first name is common in the country of 19 million, and Cepoi is a popular family name in the region.

But political scientists said this could be a tactic by rival parties to split the vote of the strongest candidate, according to Romanian news channel Digi24.

“I am young, I’m not going to be confused, but there will be problems with older people,” a man from Drăguşeni told Digi24.

There is a similar issue in another village in the same county. The mayor of Zamostea, Vasile Haliuc, a Social Democrat, is running against Vasile Haliuc, a relative who is a member of the rival National Liberal Party.

“We also ran in 2012 together; the citizens know us, they know how to make the difference,” PSD’s Haliuc told Digi24.

Sunday’s local elections are the first since Ponta’s government collapsed last November amid anti-corruption protests. Many candidates in the current race have been accused of corruption or even jailed.

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