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Article 24
 

CEC decision-making

Decisions related to:

a) the distribution of seats for each electoral zone in accordance with articles 162, 163 and point 3 of article 166 of this Code;

b) the acceptance of a complaint against a decision for the approval of an Aggregate Table of the Elections Result of an electoral zone, in accordance with article 123 of this Code, and decisions related to complaints against a CEAZ decision on the election results for local government;

c) requests for declaring the invalidation of elections in one or several voting centres, in accordance with article 160 of this Code;

ç) the declaration invalidity of elections in an electoral zone or in the entire country, and their repetition;

d) acts of a normative nature that aim to regulate issues related to elections;

dh) a proposal for the dismissal of a CEC member, in accordance with point 2 of article 18 of this Code;

e) the approval of the CEC organizational structure, as well as the Rules on the Functioning of the CEC;

ë) allocation of seats for each electoral zone in accordance with article 76 of this Code;

f) division of Electoral Administration Zones in accordance with article 27 of this Code, are considered to be approved when no fewer than 5 CEC members have voted in their favour. Other decisions are approved by a majority of votes of all CEC members.

2. CEC decisions are to be signed by all members who participated in the vote. Each of the CEC members puts in writing alongside his signature how he has voted, as the case may be, “in favour” or “against”. Members in the minority must file their dissenting or concurring opinion not later than 24 hours after the decision has been made. The minority opinion is to be attached to the respective decision.

3. Each CEC decision is transcribed in final form within 24 hours after it has been reached. No fewer than two original copies of the decision, or, as the case may be, of the CEC instruction, are to be retained in the CEC archive. Decisions are to be published immediately on the official website of the CEC.

4. During the electoral period, the Secretary General of the CEC, upon the request of any electoral subject, is to provide certified copies of CEC decisions free of charge and within 24 hours of the request having been submitted. Outside the electoral period, as well as upon request of any other interested person, copies of CEC acts are provided for payment in accordance with the relevant legal acts in effect.