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Article 27
 

Formation of Electoral Districts and District Electoral Councils


(1) At least 55 days before elections, the Central Electoral Commission creates electoral districts that will correspond to the borders of second level territorial- administrative units of the Republic of Moldova, and of the autonomous territorial unit of Gagauzia, Chisinau and Balti municipalities, and, at least 50 days before elections, it creates district electoral councils. In elections at any level and in republican referenda, electoral districts and district electoral councils are established within the same terms.


(2) District electoral councils will consist of an odd number of members, at least 7 and no more than 11. Of these members, at least three of them must have completed higher legal education or public administration education.


(3) In local elections and referenda, 2 members of district electoral councils of the !rst level are nominated as candidates by the !rst level local council, and if there are no candidates nominated, the members are to be nominated by the Central Electoral Commission out of the persons entered in the Register of Electoral Officials. Other candidates are nominated by the parties and other socio-political organisations represented in Parliament as of the date when the electoral district councils were created, one candidate from each party or other social-political organisation, and if that is not enough, the rest of the members are nominated by the Central Electoral Commission out of the Register of Electoral Officials. To the extent possible, individuals having higher legal education are to be appointed to district electoral councils


(4) In parliamentary, presidential elections, republican referenda and general local elections, 2 members of the second level district electoral councils are nominated as candidates by the courts of law, or, if applicable, by the court of appeal. The other two members will be nominated by the second level local council by the Popular Assembly of Gagauzia. Parties and other social-political organisations represented in the Parliament on the date the district electoral council was created will nominate one candidate from each party or other social-political organisation, and if that is not enough, the rest of the members are nominated by the Central Electoral Commission out of the Register of Electoral Officials.


(5) If parties and other social-political organisations do not nominate their candidates for the district electoral council at least 7 days before the deadline of
its establishment, the necessary number of candidates is filled by the local councils and by the People’s Assembly of Gagauzia, and if the latter do not present their candidates, the members of the electoral council will be nominated by the Central Electoral Commission from the Register of Electoral O"cials. If the district electoral council has the function of the precinct electoral bureau, its members will be nominated by the parties and other social-political organisations represented in Parliament, who may not be members of parties.


(6) Members of the district electoral council nominated by the courts of law and by the local councils may not be counsellors within the local councils, deputies in the People’s Assembly of Gagauzia, and/or party members.


(7) Within three days from their establishment, the district electoral councils will elect by secret ballot from among their members, a chairperson, deputy chairperson and secretary of the council, informing promptly the results of these elections to the Central Electoral Commission.


(8) Within four days from the date of its establishment, district electoral councils will make public the names of their members, their location, and contacts details.


(9) District electoral councils pass decisions by a majority vote of their members.


(10) At the proposal of the district electoral council, the council is assisted by an apparatus, its sta being approved by the Central Electoral Commission. During the period of their detachment from their permanent employment, the employees of the council’s apparatus detached from institutions €nanced by the budget are paid their main full-time salary. They are paid, from the resources allotted for elections, an allowance equal to 25% of the average national economy salary for the preceding year, whilst those detached from non-budgetary institutions or summoned (pensioners, persons temporarily unemployed) are paid, from the resources allotted for elections, an allowance equal to an average national salary of the preceding year.