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Article 118
 

(1) (Supplemented, SG No. 39/2016, effective 26.05.2016) The election agents shall be registered until polling day on the basis of an application signed by the person representing the party or the persons representing the coalition or by persons expressly authorised thereby. The application of the nomination committee shall be signed by the person representing the nomination committee. In the cases where the application is submitted by authorised persons, the relevant authorisation shall be presented as well. The application shall be accompanied by a list signed by the persons referred to in sentence one or two, stating the names and the Standard Public Registry Personal Number or, respectively, another identifying number for the persons who are not Bulgarian nationals, of the persons to be registered as election agents and a declaration by the persons to the effect that they satisfy the requirements of Article 117 (3) herein.


(2) The registration of the election agents shall be effected by the constituency election commission or municipal election commission complying with the requirement of Article 117 (4) herein.


(3) The registration of the election agents abroad shall be effected by the Central Election Commission complying with the requirement of Article 117 (5) herein.


(4) An election agent may be replaced by an additionally registered election agent in the cases where the election agent is unable to exercise the rights thereof or where a proposal has been made by the party, coalition or nomination committee concerned. The total number of additional election agents of each candidate list of a party, coalition and nomination committee may be up to one-third of the number of voting sections in the respective constituency (district). The constituency election commission or municipal election commission shall register the election agent according to the procedure established by Paragraph (1) and shall issue a certificate to the said agent. The certificate of the replaced election agent shall be cancelled. Any such replacement shall forthwith be entered in the public register of election agents.


(5) Upon conduct of a new election of President and Vice President of the Republic in the cases referred to in Article 93 (4) of the Constitution or, respectively, a second round of voting in elections of a mayor, the registration of the election agents of the candidate lists of the parties, coalitions and nomination committees effected at the Central Election Commission, the constituency election commission or the municipal election commission for the first election or, respectively, the first round, shall subsist in effect. New election agents may furthermore be registered between the two elections or, respectively, between the two rounds.