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Article 18
 

(1) (Amended, SG No. 39/2016, effective 26.05.2016, SG No. 57/2016, effective 22.07.2016) Elections shall be prepared and organised by the election commissions, the executive authorities and the other institutions in accordance with the powers vested therein under this Code. The executive authorities and the other institutions shall implement administrative and logistical activities in providing the election commissions, inter alia, with ballots, election stationery, equipment and consumables and other materials. The printing of the paper ballots, the arrangements for machine voting and the related activities shall be assigned and controlled by the Central Election Commission. The Council of Ministers shall coordinate the activity of the executive authorities in connection with the logistical support of the elections.


(2) The expenditures on the preparation and conduct of the elections, including on the machine voting and on the forms referred to in Articles 193 and 195 herein, shall be for the account of the State budget according to a cost estimate adopted by the Council of Ministers in consultation with the Central Election Commission. The cost estimate for the elections shall be adopted not later than 55 days in advance of polling day.


(3) The funds for the administrative and logistical preparation for the elections shall be provided to the municipal administrations or to the regional administrations, as the case may be, not later than 30 days in advance of polling day.


(4) Within seven days after the date of scheduling of the elections, the Council of Ministers may assign the coordination and implementation of the activities as referred to in Paragraph (1) to a particular minister.


(5) (New, SG No. 39/2016, effective 26.05.2016) The Prosecutor General and the Minister of Interior shall form joint situation centres (teams) for interoperability in the fight against criminal offences related to the election process. The said situation centres (teams) shall operate throughout the election campaign.