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Article 41
 

(1) The election commissions of the City of Zagreb, and county, city and municipal election commissions have permanent and extended compositions.


(2) The permanent composition of the election commission consists of the president, the vicepresident and four members (hereinafter: members of the permanent composition).


(3) At least one third of the members of the permanent composition of the election commission shall be replaced at each subsequent election.


(4) The extended composition of the commission consists of three representatives of the majority political party or parties, and three representatives of the opposition political parties, proposed in agreement, and shall be constituted within 8 days from the day the decision to call the election comes into force.


(5) The ratio between the total number of members of the extended composition within the group of parties is regulated according to the proportion that each party has in the municipal or city council, the county assembly, or the City Assembly of the City of Zagreb.


(6) When elections are being held at the same time for the representative bodies of a unit of local and a unit of regional self-government, two of the three members of the extended composition shall represent political groups from the representative body of the unit of local self-government and one of the three members of the extended composition shall represent political groups from the representative body of the unit of regional self-government. In line with this division, the remaining three members shall represent the opposition political group.


(7) If individual groups cannot agree on the distribution of their representatives in the election commission, their distribution shall be established by the competent election commission by lot, in such a way that the representatives of political parties will be so distributed that an individual party is represented in the largest possible number of commissions with regard to the total number of its representatives.


(8) The vice-president shall stand in for the president if the latter is absent or otherwise engaged, with all the authority of the president, and all members of the election commission have equal rights and duties.


(9) The president, vice-president and members of the county election commissions and the Election Commission of the City of Zagreb, and the president and vice-president of the municipal and city election commissions must hold a master's degree in the field of law.


(10) The president, vice-president, and members of the permanent composition of the election commissions may not be members of any political party, or candidates at the elections they are running. The members of the extended composition of the election commissions may not be candidates at the elections they are running.