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Article 2
 

(1) Croatian citizens who have reached the age of 18 years have the right to vote (hereinafter: voters).


(2) Voters who are resident in the area of the unit for whose body the elections are being held have the right to elect members of representative bodies of units of local and regional selfgovernment (hereinafter: units) and municipality heads, mayors and county prefects and their deputies.


(3) Citizens of other European Union member states have the right to elect members of representative bodies of units, pursuant to a separate Act.


(4) The right to vote is exercised at direct elections by secret ballot.