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Article 131
 

Five days before the elections, the candidates appoint a witness and a deputy witness to assist with the operation in each of the polling stations and vote counting sites.


Candidates, who present themselves conjointly, can only appoint one witness and one deputy witness per polling station and vote counting site.


The candidates indicate the polling stations and the vote counting sites where each of the witnesses will fulfill his/her mission for the complete duration of the operations. They personally inform the witnesses about it. The information letter signed by one of the candidates is countersigned by the chairman of the general electoral committee.


The witnesses must be voters for the Chamber of Representatives in the electoral constituency.


They are authorized to seal the envelopes mentioned in the articles 147, 162 and 179 and to include their observation in the protocol.


The candidates can be appointed as witnesses or substitute witnesses even if they are not voters in the constituency.