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Article 35
 

(1)   Local government representatives and mayors shall be elected by direct and secret ballot by citizens eligible to vote, on the basis of universal and equal suffrage, in elections which guarantee free expression of the will of the voters, in the manner laid down in a cardinal Act.


(2)   General elections of local representatives and mayors shall be held in October of the fifth year following the previous general election of local representatives and mayors.


(3)   The mandate of local representative bodies shall terminate on the day of the general elections for local government representatives and mayors. If elections cannot be held due to a lack of candidates, the mandate of the local representative body shall be extended until the day of the interim elections. The mandate of mayors shall last until the election of the new mayors.


(4)   Local representative bodies may declare their dissolution as laid down in a cardinal Act.


(5)   At the motion of the Government – submitted after obtaining the opinion of the Constitutional Court – Parliament shall dissolve the representative body whose operation is contrary to the Fundamental Law.


(6)   Upon a local representative body dissolving itself or upon it being dissolved, the mandate of the mayor shall also terminate.