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ARTICLE 32
 

Performance of duties 


The office of member of the Electoral Boards is honorary and obligatory.


Members of the Electoral Boards shall act with absolute impartiality and shall only comply with election legislation and the instructions of the TSE and election advisers. While performing their duties, members shall not take the fact that they were proposed by a political party into account.


Attendance at meetings of boards of elections is mandatory. At the request of any of their fellow members, of the election adviser or of the representative of any political party, reluctant board members shall be compelled to perform their duties by the police force, without prejudice to the sanctions stipulated in this Act.