Powers of Municipal Election commissions

The MEC shall:

1) in accordance with the procedure established by the CEC, inform the voters residing within the municipality about the boundaries of precincts, offices of the election Commissions, working hours and polling stations;

2) supervise the implementation of this Law within the municipality;

3) form PECs;

4) within the limits approved by the CEC, approve estimated expenses of PECs and control the use of funds assigned;

5) register election observers and issue certificates to them;

6) make up a list of health care (except out-patient), social care institutions, military units, arrest houses, remand prisons (detention facilities) and penitentiary institutions situated in the territory of a municipality, and together with the head of the post office take care of the organisation of postal voting in those places, as well as organise early voting;

7) draw up a vote counting protocol, establish voting results and transfer them for approval to the CEC;

8) consider complaints against decisions and actions of the PECs and adopt decisions concerning them; and

9) in accordance with the procedure laid down by the CEC, conduct monitoring of political advertising at the territory of a municipality during the election campaign and submit the monitoring data to the CEC;

10) exercise other powers provided for in this Law.