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Article 260
 

260.1. The conduct of the general representatives of the parties and of Independent Candidates will be subject to the following rules:


a) They will exclusively carry out their duties before the directive boards of the polling stations installed in the electoral districts where they were accredited;


b) They should act individually, and more than one general representative of a same political party cannot under any circumstances be present at the same time in the polling stations;


c) They can act in representation of the political party or, where applicable, of the independent candidate that accredited them for all the elections held on the date of the Election Day;


d) They cannot substitute the representatives of the political parties and of the Independent Candidates before the directive boards of the polling stations in their functions, nevertheless, they can assist in theirfunctions and in the exercise of their rights before the directive boards of the polling stations;


e) They cannot under any circumstances exercise or take on the functions of the members of the directive boards of the polling stations;


f) They will not hinder the normal course of the voting in the polling stations where they present themselves;


g) They can at any time present incident statements provoked during the course of the Election Day, but they can only present written objections at the end of the scrutiny and count when the representative of their political party before the directive board of the polling station was not present, and


h) They could confirm the presence of the representatives of the political party in the directive boards of the polling stations and receive from them the reports relating to their performances.