Fundamentals for formation of electoral commissions

1. Citizens, having the right of suffrage and meeting the requirements of Articles 42 and 43 of this Code, may respectively be included in the composition of the Central Electoral Commission and district electoral commissions.

2. Persons convicted of crimes, as well as intentionally committed crimes of medium gravity, grave or particularly grave crimes provided for by Articles 149-154.6 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Armenia may not act as member of electoral commission. Deputies of the National Assembly, ministers and their deputies, heads of communities, marz governors and their deputies, judges, prosecutors, officers of investigation bodies, officers of the Police, National Security Service, Judicial Acts Compulsory Enforcement Service, officers of the Penitentiary, Probation and Rescue Services, military servants, proxies, authorised representatives of the political party running in elections, the candidate for a community head and a member of a council of elders, observers, candidates may not act as member of district and precinct electoral commissions. Members of councils of elders may not also act as members of district electoral commissions. The Central Electoral Commission may prescribe higher qualification criteria for chairperson and secretary of precinct electoral commission than for members of precinct electoral commission.

3. Persons having the right of suffrage and having a qualification certificate for being included in an electoral commission may be included in the composition of precinct electoral commission.

4. Following the formation of district electoral commissions, the Central Electoral Commission shall carry out training of members of those commissions.

5. The Central Electoral Commission shall — in the manner it has prescribed — organise and conduct professional courses on holding elections for candidates for members of electoral commissions. The courses shall be organised in Yerevan and in marzes, at least once a year, based on the applications of citizens, the lists submitted by political parties. Persons included in the submitted lists, as well as persons having submitted an application shall participate in the professional courses in compliance with the schedule (date, time, venue) published by the Central Electoral Commission in advance. The persons referred to may participate in a test, irrespective of the fact of participating in the course, in compliance with the published schedule. Qualification certificates shall be issued based on the test. The test shall be carried out through computer-based or standard testing method. Representatives of mass media, non-governmental organisations may follow the process of the courses and the test.

6. A citizen may simultaneously be included in the composition of only one electoral commission, except for the case prescribed by this part for a member of the precinct electoral commission. A citizen may simultaneously be member of more than one precinct electoral commissions where different dates for holding elections are prescribed

7. Information on the composition of electoral commissions shall be published as prescribed by the Central Electoral Commission.

(Article 41 amended by HO-119-N of 30 June 2016 , amended, edited by HO-158-N of 20 October 2018, amended, supplemented by HO-318-N of 4 may 2018)