(1) An election committee consists of a president, vice-president and eight members.

(2) Four members of the election committee shall be appointed by the majority political party, and four members by the opposition political party or parties, pursuant to the party composition of the representative body of the individual unit.

(3) The ratio between the total number of members of election committees within the group of parties is regulated according to the proportion in which each party participates in the city or municipal council, or the county assembly.

(4) 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 four members shall represent the majority political party or political grouping from the representative body of the unit of local self-government, and two of the four members shall represent the majority political party or political groups from the representative body of the unit of regional self-government. The remaining four members shall represent the opposition political parties from the representative body of the unit of local self-government, and the representative body of the unit of regional self-government, in line with that division.

(5) If individual groups are not able to agree on the distribution of their representatives in the election committees, their distribution shall be established by the competent election commission by lot, in that the party representatives will be so distributed that an individual party is represented in the largest possible number of election committees with regard to the total number of its representatives.

(6) Political parties are obliged to designate the members of the election committees and send their names to the competent election commissions no later than 12 days before the election is held. If they are not designated, or if the proposals do not reach the competent election commissions within the time limit given, the competent election commissions shall designate the members of the election committees themselves.

(7) All the members of the election committee have the same rights and duties.

(8) The president, vice-president and members of an election committee may not be candidates at the elections they are running, and the president and vice-president of the election committee may not be members of any political party.