Provincial Electoral Commissions (Juntas Electorales Provinciales)

1. Provincial Electoral Commissions shall consist of:

a) Three members among judges of the respective High Council, appointed by lot by the General Judiciary Council. Where there is not a sufficient number of judges in said High Provincial Court, judges from the one-person tribunals of the capital city shall be appointed in the necessary number.

b) Two members appointed by the Central Electoral Commission among Senior Professors and Professors of Law, Political Science or Social Science or lawyers of acknowledged prestige residing in the province. Their appointment shall take place once candidates have been officially announced. To this end the representatives of candidates standing for the district shall jointly nominate the persons who are to discharge these functions. If no such nomination has not been put forward before the beginning of the election campaign, the Central Electoral Commission shall proceed to the appointments.

2. Members referred to in subsection 1 a) of this present Section shall choose one of them as President of the Commission.

3. The Chairmen of Provincial Electoral Committees shall exclusively perform the functions pertaining to their respective Electoral Commission from the calling of the electoral process until the proclamation of duly elected candidates and, should the case arise, until the execution of judgments on election petitions, including human rights appeals contemplated in Sect. 114.2 of this Act, in connection with the electoral process in their constituency. In the latter case, the term
provided for in Sect. 15.2 of this Act shall be extended for so long as necessary and the General Judiciary Council shall take all necessary steps.

4. The Secretary of the Provincial Electoral Commission shall be the Secretary of the corresponding Provincial High Court and, where there are more than one, the first by order of seniority. 

 1.B) AS AMENDED BY SECT. 4 OF INSTITUTIONAL ACT 8/1991, OF MARCH 13
 3. AS AMENDED BY SECT. 5 OF INSTITUTIONAL ACT 8/1991, OF MARCH 13
 4. RENUMBERED BY SECT. 6 OF SAID INSTITUTIONAL ACT 8/1991, OF MARCH 1.FORMER SUBS.
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