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Article 50
 

(1) Eligibility for election or, respectively, for appointment as a member of the Central Election Commission shall be limited to persons who are Bulgarian nationals and:


1. are not interdicted;
2. hold an educational qualification degree not lower than Master, awarded thereto upon graduation from a higher educational establishment; the higher education should preferably be in Law, Informatics and Computer Science, Mathematics, Public Communications and Information Science, Political Science and Sociology;
3. possess professional experience of not less than seven years;
4. have a good professional reputation and enjoy public authority and trust.


(2) The Chairperson of the Commission must be a qualified lawyer with a practice of not less than ten years and must satisfy the requirements under Paragraph (1).


(3) The following shall be ineligible for member of the Commission:


1. any person who has been convicted of an intentional publicly prosecutable offence, regardless of the rehabilitation, as well as any person who has been released from criminal responsibility for an intentional offence;
2. any person holding elective office in a central or local government authority;
3. any person hired under an employment relationship or a civil-service relationship, except in a teaching capacity;
4. the spouse or a de facto cohabitant, or any lineal relative up to any degree of consanguinity or any collateral relative up to the fourth degree of consanguinity and any affine up to the second degree of consanguinity, of another member of the Commission;
5. any sole trader, partner in a commercial corporation, managing director, business agent, commercial agent, managerial agent, broker, liquidator or trustee in bankruptcy, member of a management or control body of any commercial corporation;
6. any candidate for the relevant type of election;
7. any member of the leadership of a campaign headquarters of any party, coalition or nomination committee.


(4) The members of the Commission shall vacate the offices occupied thereby or shall discontinue any activities incompatible with the requirements of Items 2, 3, 5 and 7 of Paragraph (3) within one month after the election or, respectively, the appointment thereof.