(Additional incompatibilities of elected Council Members and disqualification from office)
First-degree lineal descendants or those who are related by marriage or are in a de facto partnership cannot be Council Members at the same time.
In case of election for the same legislature, the candidate who obtained the highest number of votes shall be elected.
The offices of the Head of the Township Council and of member of Township Council are incompatible with the post of Council Member, in accordance with Law No. 22, 24 February 1994, Art. 9, paragraphs 3 and 4, as amended by Law No. 97, 10 October 2002, Art. 2. If a Head of the Township Council or a member of the Township Council is elected as Council Member, and if a Council Member is elected as Head of the Township Council or as member of the Township Council, they shall choose one of the two offices within 15 days from the most recent election. They shall communicate their choice in written to the Institutional Secretariat and to the Office of the Township Councils. Lack of communication within the deadline above entails the removal from the office held before the most recent election.
In accordance with Art. 12, Law No. 21, 11 March 1981, the disqualification from the office of Council Member shall take place in the following cases:
a) Council Members who cease to meet the requirements for being elected.
b) Council Members who do not participate in sittings for more than three consecutive months, without having requested and obtained the waiver from the Great and General Council, with the exception of cases of force majeure.
