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Article 35
 

Political parties, other public associations, labour groups of organizations or groups of their structural subdivisions from their members, as well as citizens, may nominate, by way of submission of the application, only one representative to the respective territorial, circuit and precinct commission.


The following bodies have the right to nominate their representatives as members of the commissions:


governing bodies of political parties, other republican public associations – to the regional, Minsk City territorial and circuit electoral commissions for the elections of deputies of the House of Representatives;


governing bodies of the regional, Minsk City, district, city (in the cities of regional subordination), district-in-the-cities organizational structures of political parties, other public associations – to respective regional, Minsk City, district, city (in the cities of regional subordination) territorial commissions on elections of the President of the Republic of Belarus, deputies of local Council of Deputies, on the referendum, district-in-the-cities territorial commissions on elections of the President of the Republic of Belarus, on the referendum, and also to precinct commissions;


governing bodies of the regional, Minsk City organizational structures of political parties, other public associations – to the respective circuit electoral commissions on elections to regional Councils of Deputies, to territorial electoral commissions exercising within the districts of the city of Minsk powers of circuit electoral commissions on elections to the Minsk City Council of Deputies;


governing bodies of city (in the cities of district subordination) organizational structures of political parties, other public associations, assemblies of their primary organizations – to the respective city (in the cities of district subordination), settlement, rural territorial and precinct commissions.A primary organization of political party, other public association is entitled to nominate its representative to a precinct commission of that voting precinct on the territory of which the primary organization is located;


meetings of rural Council of labour groups of organizations or collectives of their structural subdivisions located in the territory of the district, city, district-in-the-city, settlement and rural Council having not less than 10 workers – to the respective territorial, circuit and precinct commissions.When representatives for the commissions are nominated from the structural subdivisions, the nomination of representatives to those commissions from the whole labour group is not held.The meeting is competent if it is attended by more than half of the members of the collective.Decision of the meeting of a labour group is taken by the majority of votes of its participants.Representatives to territorial, circuit and precinct commissions may be nominated from the collectives of several structural subdivisions or from several labour groups of organizations and collectives of structural subdivisions with total number of workers of not less than 10 persons at their general meeting.The meeting is competent if more than half of the members of each such collective are present.


Governing bodies of political parties, other public associations nominate representatives to the commissions at their sittings.


Citizens have the right to nominate, by means of lodging an application, their representatives to the membership of territorial, circuit and precinct commissions.The application shall be signed by not less than 10 citizens having electoral right and residing on the respective territory.The application on the nomination of a representative to the precinct commission formed outside the Republic of Belarus, must be signed by at least three citizens residing on the territory of the voting precinct.


Nomination of representatives to the commission on holding of voting on the recall of a deputy is performed in the order provided for by part two, three and four of this Article.


When nominating the representative to the respective commission, the protocol of the sitting or the application signed by citizens are submitted to the bodies forming the commission not later than three days before the term of forming of the respective commission established by this Code.


The protocol specifies the name of the governing body o political party, other public association which has nominated the representative to the commission, its address and phone number, the number of members of the body (collective), number of participants of the meeting, sittings of that body (collective), results of voting, date of the decision, surname, name and patronymic, date of birth, work status (occupation), place of work and place of residence, party affiliation of the person nominated to members of the commission.The respective data are also indicated in the protocol of meeting of the labour group, primary organization of political party, other public association.The protocol is signed by the chairperson and the secretary of the meeting, sitting.The application of the citizens who have nominated the representative to the commission by means of lodging an application shall specify the respective data mentioned in this part of this Article about the person nominated to member of the commission, as well as the surname, name and patronymic, date of birth and place of residence of every citizen who has signed the application.