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Article 41
 

1. The Central Electoral Commission is the body, in charge of the legal organization and oversight of elections, which functions on a permanent basis, guided by the procedure adopted by it and has the status of a legal person. The Central Electoral Commission 1) controls the means of the state budget allocated to it for preparation and conduct of legitimate elections, oversees the provision of electoral commissions with buildings, furniture, other material and technical equipment;

2) Takes a decision on the order of business for itself and inferior electoral commissions;

3) Oversees the equal application of this electoral Code;

4) Establishes the procedure for the compilation of the voter lists in communities;

5) Oversees the ensuring of equal opportunities established for campaigning through mass media;

6) Establishes forms of ballots and other election documents, provides the electoral commissions with necessary election documentation;

7) Publishes instructions on the application of this code and other normative acts, which are obligatory for all electoral commissions preparing and conducting the elections and oversees their fulfillment;

8) Establishes the procedure for verification and correction of voter lists;

9) Ensures equal conditions for the pre-election activities for Presidential candidates, parties running in the National Assembly proportional elections, and candidates registered for elections in majoritarian constituencies;

10) within its powers takes decisions, that are mandatory for all state and local self-governing bodies, NGOs, parties, institutions, organizations, as well as for officials;

11) considers the applications and complaints on decisions and actions of electoral commissions, reviews or eliminates the decisions of commissions, which contradict the Code and the decisions taken by superior Electoral Commissions;

12) Hears the reports of electoral commissions and relevant state bodies on preparation and conduct of elections;

13) Accredits the representatives of mass media, registers the representatives of foreign countries as observers, NGOs, international organizations, and on the basis of the submitted lists, issues them certificates;

14) Approves the forms of ballot boxes;

15) Approves the forms of seals of electoral commissions, orders them and allocates to the electoral commissions, establishes the procedure for the return of the seals after the elections;

16) registers and issues certificates to the persons nominated as candidates for the President of the Republic; in the cases envisaged by the law rejects, recognizes their registration as out of force or invalid; provides the registered candidates for Presidency or their proxies with a sufficient number of certificates;

17) Registers the parties and initiative groups nominating a candidate for the President of the Republic;

18) Organizes the publication of biographical data of the nominated candidates for the President of the Republic;

19) in the event of the availability of bases envisaged by the law recognizes the presidential election as invalid or not held, makes a decision about his/her election;

20) Summarizes and approves the results of the elections of the President of the Republic, the National Assembly proportional elections;

21) Registers parties, which have submitted application on running in the National Assembly proportional elections and publishes the lists of candidates nominated by them;

22) Registers Deputies elected to the National Assembly and issues them a certificate of the Member of Parliament;

23) Assigns by-elections and new elections of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia;

24) Applies to the relevant competent state bodies in cases of violation of this Code;

25) Resolves other matters related to the application of this Code;

26) Establishes the procedure for organization of training, organizes the training of the members of electoral commissions;

27) Establishes the procedure for drawing a lot in electoral commissions;

28) Numbers the majoritarian constituencies of the National Assembly;

29) Establishes the order of business in connection with the pre-election fund and the electoral deposit;

30) Realizes other powers envisaged by this Code.

2. If the constituency includes communities belonging to more than one region, 65 days before the day of voting the Central Electoral Commission determines the Territorial Electoral Commission in charge of organization and conduct of elections in that particular community.

3. After each national election, within thirty days period, the Chairman of the Central Electoral Commission, or upon his request, one of the members of the Central Electoral Commission makes a statement in the National Assembly on the organization and conduct of elections.

(Amend. of March 23, 1999 LA-286; July 31, 2002 LA-406-P)