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Article 33
 

Powers of the Central Commission


Central Commission within its competence:


1) organizes preparation and holding of elections of the President of the Republic of Belarus, deputies of the House of Representatives and of the members of the Council of the Republic, deputies of local Council of Deputies, republican referendums;


2) carries out over the whole territory of the Republic of Belarus the control over execution of the legislation of the Republic of Belarus on elections, referendum, recall of a deputy and of a member of the Council of the Republic;


3) give explanations of the legislation of the Republic of Belarus on elections, referendum, recall of a deputy and of a member of the Council of the Republic for the purposes of its uniform application;


4) appeals, in the case of necessity, to the subjects of the right of legislative initiative with propositions on interpretation of this Code and other acts of legislation of the Republic of Belarus on elections, referendum, recall of a deputy and of a member of the Council of the Republic;


5) directs activities of electoral commissions, commissions on referendum, commissions on holding the voting on the recall of deputies, hears their information, renders to those commissions methodological, organizational and technical aid;


6) when required, decides on merits the issues referred to the competence of a lower commission;


7) forms electoral circuits for elections of deputies of the House of Representatives and establish the average number of electors per electoral circuit in the Republic of Belarus;


8) decides issues on the procedure of participation of citizens of the Republic of Belarus who stay outside the Republic of Belarus in elections of the President of the Republic of Belarus, deputies of the House of Representatives and the republican referendum as well as on the formation of voting precincts; on recommendations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus, takes decisions on assignment of the voting precincts formed abroad to the administrative territorial units or electoral circuits in the territory of the Republic of Belarus;


9) makes conclusions on the legitimacy of nomination of candidates for membership in the Council of the Republic, registers candidates nominated for membership in the Council of the Republic, summarizes the results of elections of members of the Council of the Republic, registers the elected members of the Council of the Republic and publish in press the list of elected members of the Council of the Republic as well as convenes the first post-election session of the Council of the Republic;


10) registers:


the initiative groups of citizens for nomination of candidates for the President of the Republic of Belarus;


the candidates for the President of the Republic of Belarus and their authorized persons and issues to them the respective certificates;


the initiative group of citizens on the holding of the republican referendum and the issues proposed by it for the republican referendum;


the initiative group of electors for gathering of signatures in support of the proposal on initiation of the issue of recall of a deputy of the House of Representatives;


11) provides for the observance of equal legal conditions for election activities of political parties, other public associations, candidates for the President and candidates for deputies;


12) defines the order of use of state mass media in the election campaign;


13) makes up and approves estimates of costs for the holding of elections, a republican referendum or recall of a deputy of the House of Representatives within the limits of the funds allocated from the republican budget, forms a non-budgetary fund for the holding of elections or a republican referendum for voluntary remittance of funds of organizations, including public associations, citizens and approves the regulations on the fund; distributes monetary funds allocated from the republican budget and the non-budgetary fund among the electoral commissions, commissions on referendum, commission on holding the voting on the recall of a deputy of the House of Representative;


14) controls the target use of monetary funds allocated from the republican budget, non-budgetary fund, electoral funds of candidates for the President of the Republic of Belarus, of deputies of the House of Representatives; informs the House of Representatives on spending funds allocated from budget for holding of elections, republican referendum, recall of a deputy of the House of Representatives; and publishes the report on the use of funds from the non-budgetary fund;


15) establishes the forms of ballot papers and the list of citizens who have the right to take part in elections, referendum and voting on the recall of deputies, protocols of commissions and other documents on elections, referendum and recall of deputies, specimens of ballot boxes and seals of commissions;


16) ensures manufacturing of ballot papers on elections of the President of the Republic of Belarus and for the voting on the republican referendum and support by them regional, Minsk City commissions on elections of the President of the Republic of Belarus, on holding of the republican referendum;


17) determines measures on ensuring of safety of ballot boxes and documents on elections, referendum within the period of early voting;


18) hears information of state bodies and bodies of public associations on issues connected with the preparation and holding of elections and referendum;


19) when elections of different level, elections and referendum are held simultaneously, may establish that the lists of citizens having the right to take part in the elections and the referendum, as well as territorial commissions are the same for the elections of different level or elections and referendum;


20) controls the provision of commissions with premises, transport, link, considers other issues of their material and technical maintenance;


21) summarizes the results of elections and referendum;


22) registers the elected deputies of the House of Representatives and publishes their list in press; convenes the first post-election session of the House of Representatives;


23) issues to the elected President of the Republic of Belarus and members of the Council of the Republic certificates on their election;


24) solves issues connected with the holding of a second round of voting, new elections and elections of the President of the Republic of Belarus in case when the post of the President is vacant as well as new voting on the referendum;


25) solves issues connected with the organization of the recall of a deputy of the House of Representatives and a member of the Council of the Republic, appoints repeated elections of deputies of the House of Representatives instead of the deputies who have withdrawn and provide its holding;


26) considers complaints about decisions of electoral commissions, commission on referendum, commission on holding of the voting on the recall of deputies and makes decisions on them;


27) considers appeals of citizens and organizations according to issues of holding of elections, referendum, recall of deputies, members of the Council of the Republic;


28) studies and generalizes practices of the application of the legislation of the Republic of Belarus on elections, referendum, recall of a deputy and of a member of the Council of the Republic;


29) puts forward before the subjects having the right of legislative initiative proposals on improvement of the legislation of the Republic of Belarus on elections, referendum, recall of a deputy and of a member of the Council of the Republic;


30) creates working groups and other structures for organizational, legal and technical support of elections and referendum;


31) while holding elections, republican referendum, determines the order and the types of remuneration of members of commissions, workers of the apparatuses of commissions, persons carrying out the conduct of accounting and drawing-up of reports in commissions, as well as the workers of the structures specified in clause 30 of this part;


32) establishes and develops ties with bodies of foreign states and international organizations dealing with issues of organization of the holding of elections and referendums;


33) exercise other powers in accordance with the legislation of the Republic of Belarus.


The issues specified in clauses 3, 4, 6-10, 12, 13, 15, 17, 17, 19, 21, 22, 24-26, 29 and 31 of part one of this Article are considered by the Central Commission collegially.


Appeals of citizens and organizations are subject to collegial consideration in case the decisions upon them are taken by lower commissions.On the initiative of the Chairperson of the Central Commission or upon the demand of not less than one third of its members at the sitting of the Central Commission, other appeals of citizens and organizations are considered.


The appeals not demanding the collegial consideration are considered, upon the instruction of the Chairperson of the Central Commission, by the members of Central Commission, as well as by workers of apparatus thereof.


Decisions of the Central Commission may be appealed against in the Supreme Court of the Republic of Belarus in the cases provided for by the legislation of the Republic of Belarus.