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Article 31
 

Municipal, town, county election commissions and the city commission of the City of Zagreb shall have a permanent and an extended composition.

The permanent composition of an election commission shall include the president and two members and their deputies. The president of an election commission has to be a graduate lawyer.

The extended composition of an election commission shall be determined upon accepting, determining and announcing the lists for the election of members of the representative body of a unit in which elections are to be held for the representative body, and it will include two representatives of the majority political party, i.e. coalition and two representatives of the opposition parties, i.e. coalition nominated by consent according to the party composition of the representative body of the unit. In case no consensus can be reached on the two representatives of the respective political parties and their deputies, they shall be elected by dice from among the proposed candidates.

The election of the extended composition of a municipal and town election commission shall be conducted before a county election commission, and the election of the extended composition of a county election commission before the State Election Commission.

All members of an election commission shall have equal duties and obligations.