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Article 33
 

Status of Electoral Commission Members

1. Electoral commission members shall be exempt from military musters and training exercises and, in the period of national elections, from military draft.

2. Members of the Central Electoral Commission (during the entire period of the Commission’s operation) and members of Territorial and Precinct Electoral Commissions (during national elections) may be detained or subjected to administrative or criminal prosecution by courts with the consent of the Central Electoral Commission only.

3. The chairman, deputy chairman, secretary and members of the Central Electoral Commission shall work on a permanent basis and shall have no right to do any other paid work, except research, teaching and creative work. Judicial servants appointed in accordance with procedures defined in this Code shall work free of charge.

4. Members of the Central Electoral Commission shall fulfill their duties until a new Central Electoral Commission and Territorial Electoral Commissions are formed.

5. Electoral commission members shall have the right to examine in advance the issues and documents to be discussed at commission meetings, to make speeches in commission meetings, submit proposals and require that they be voted on, ask questions to participants of the meeting and receive complete answers.

6. Electoral commission members shall be required to perform all tasks assigned to them by the commission chairman within the limits of his/her authority.

7. Members of a higher electoral commission shall have the right to participate, if requested by the chairman of the appropriate commission, in the meetings of a lower electoral commission with an advisory vote and be present at a precinct center on the voting day.

8. Electoral commission members may be released from the fulfillment of their job related duties (in production or services) for the period of their activities as commission members.

9. Members of electoral commissions shall be required to participate in their commission’s activities and perform their duties as established by the law. Failure to perform their duties without a compelling reason shall be prosecuted by law. Electoral commission members shall continue to receive their salaries from their main jobs.

 

Article 33.1. Funding of electoral commissions, remuneration of members of electoral commissions

1. The funding of electoral commission and remuneration of members of electoral commissions shall be provided from the state budget and according to the procedure set forth in this Article.

2. The remuneration of the chairman, the deputy chairman, the secretary and the members of the Central Electoral Commission shall be established pursuant to the Law of the

Republic of Armenia on the Official Salary Scale for Senior Officials of the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Power Bodies.”

3. For national elections, new or by-elections to the National Assembly under majoritarian system or elections to local self-government bodies taking place in 5 and more communities and/or in a community with more than 10,000 voters, for each month of the election period (60 days) the chairman, the deputy chairman and the secretary of the Territorial Electoral Commission shall be remunerated at the level of 50% of the remuneration of the chairman, the deputy chairman and the secretary of the Central Electoral Commission respectively, while the members of the commission shall be remunerated, for the same period (60 days), at the level of 50 percent of monthly remuneration of the chairman of the Territorial Electoral Commission.

For other elections, the chairman, the deputy chairman and the secretary of the Territorial Electoral Commission shall be remunerated at the level of remuneration of the chairman, deputy chairman and secretary of the Precinct Electoral Commission respectively. Judicial servants appointed to the Territorial Electoral Commissions shall work in the commissions without remuneration.

4. During the election period, the chairman of the Precinct Electoral Commission shall receive remuneration equivalent to the double of the minimal wage established by the legislation of the Republic of Armenia, while the deputy chairman, the secretary and the members of the commission shall receive remuneration equal to the minimal wage.

5. Up to 15 percent of the funds available at the Electoral Deposits Account of the Central Electoral Commission may, pursuant to a decision of the Central Electoral Commission and based on an annual budget estimate, be used for the implementation of projects aimed at review of experience of administration of elections, improved administration of elections, technical upgrade of the Central Electoral Commission and publication of materials related to election legislation.