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Article 120
 

(1) The election agent shall be entitled:


1. to assist the candidates on the candidate list of a party, coalition or nomination committee in the constituency (district) and to represent the interests of the said candidates;


2. to be present at the meetings of the election commissions;


3. to be present upon the receipt of the election stationery and materials and the preparation of the polling sites;


4. to be present at the polling site upon the opening and closing of the polls;


5. to be present at the polling site while voting is in progress;


6. to be present in the polling site upon the opening of the ballot boxes and upon the ascertainment of the voting results, for which direct visibility shall be ensured thereto;


7. to be present upon the entry and re-entry at the election commissions and at the computation centres of the data from the tally sheets showing the voting results of the section election commissions;


8. to receive, upon signed acknowledgement, a copy of the tally sheet on the respective type of election showing the voting results in the voting section, as well as showing the voting results in the respective constituency (district);


9. (new, SG No. 39/2016, effective 26.05.2016) to lodge complaints and alerts about irregularities affecting the election process.


(2) Only one election agent of a candidate list from each political party, coalition or nomination committee may be present at the meetings of the commissions, and upon elections of municipal councillors and of mayors, the candidate lists for municipal councillors and for mayors of one and the same party or coalition may be represented jointly by a single election agent.


(3) The election agent may not be an attendant.