Powers of the Commission

(1) The Municipal election commission shall:

1. implement the activities on the application of this Code and the legal regulations thereto related;
2. exercise control on the activity of the section election commissions within the territory of the election region;
3. shall determine and make public the numbers of the election regions in the Municipality upon numbering thereof, the Municipal election commission shall reckon the Common Classifier of the Administrative-Territorial and Territorial Units in Bulgaria;
4. conduct a training of the members of the section election commissions in the election region, jointly with the training unit under Art. 56, Para. 1;
5. appoint the section election commissions in the respective election region and endorse the lists of alternate members;
6. dismiss members of the section election commissions in the respective election region in the cases of violations of the Code, of the decisions of the Central Election Commission and of the Municipal election commission, as well as upon occurrence of any circumstance covered under Art. 51, Para. 2;
7. see to the timely and correct establishment of polling stations in the election region and generate and endorse their uniform numbers;
8. exercise control on the timely announcing of the electoral lists;
9. endorse the standard forms of the ballot papers for Municipal councillors and for Mayors in the relevant Municipality and exercise control on the delivery and the storage thereof;
10. (revoked - SG 39/16, in force from 26.05.2016)
11. see to provision of conditions for voting to persons with disabilities as referred to in Section VIII and IX of Chapter Fourteen;
12. register and make public political parties and coalitions of political parties for participation in elections of Municipal councillors and for Mayors in the relevant Municipality;
13. register and make public the nomination committees and the local coalitions of political parties for participation in elections of Municipal councillors and for Mayors in the relevant Municipality and issue certificates thereto; keep a public register;
14. register and make public the candidate lists of the political parties, coalitions of political parties and nomination committees for election of Municipal councillors and candidates for Mayors and keep a public register;
15. strike the registration where it is established that the candidate does not meet the requirements under Art. 397, Para. 1 or 2, and in the cases under Art. 417, Para. 5;
16. strike the registration where the independent candidate is not supported by the needed number of voters according to Art. 416, Para. 1;
17. strike the registration of nomination committee in the cases as referred to in p. 16;
18. shall register until the election day the election agents of the candidate lists and issue certificates thereto; keep a public register of the election agents by candidate lists;
19. control the handling of the election campaign by the media service providers within a regional and local range;
20. jointly with the Municipal administration supply the section election commissions with ballot-boxes, voting ballots, electoral lists, seals, blank forms of tally sheets, lists, abstracts and drafts and control the safekeeping, distribution among polling stations and transportation thereof;
21. exercise control as to fulfilment of the obligation referred to in Art. 77, Para. 3;
22. examine all complaints and signals for breaches in the election process in conformity with its powers, including against decisions and actions of section election commissions; and pronounce by decision within one hour after receipt of the complaint or the signal and before the closing of the polls;
23. establish and maintain a public register of complaints and signals submitted to the commission and the decisions thereon.
24. in the case of early termination of powers of a Municipal councillor, announce the next candidate in the respective list as elected;
25. (amend. - SG 39/16, in force from 26.05.2016) declare the end of the election day upon the end of voting in the polling stations within the territory of the Municipality not later than 21,00 hours;
26. establish and make public the voting results in the election region within 48 hours as of its termination, draw up a tally sheet and issue certificates to the elected Municipal councillors and Mayors;
27. within the period as referred to in p. 26, scan and transmit to the Central Election Commission its tally sheets on the election of Municipal councillors, Municipality Mayor, region Mayor or the mayoralty Mayor and publish them on the Internet site thereof;
28. provide against signature of the members of the commission, candidates, election agents, representatives of the political parties, coalitions of political parties and nomination committees and observers a photocopy of the signed abstract of the tally sheet for the respective type of election with the voting results in the election region, sealed each page with the seal of the commission and signed by the chairperson, the deputy chairperson and the secretary;
29. schedule a second round for Mayor where no candidate has been elected;
30. (suppl. - SG 39/16, in force from 26.05.2016) in the cases where no candidate has been elected Mayor at the second round or where the election of Municipal councillors or Mayor has been announced as ineffective or in the case of early termination of powers of a Mayor or of the municipal council, within 7 days shall notify the Central Election Commission thereof and propose scheduling of new election;
31. display at a prominent place in the Municipality (the Mayoralty, the region) and via the local mass media the date of the election as scheduled by the President;
32. deliver to the Central Election Commission the copies of the tally sheets and the decisions of the Municipal election commission for all types of elections, the copies of the tally sheets of the section election commissions, the print-outs from the computer processing of the tally sheets of the
section election commissions, a copy of the computer print-out of the data on the tally sheet and the decision of the Municipal election commission for all types of elections provided by the computation centre, and two machine-readable data mediums storing the numerical data generated by the processing of the tally sheets of the section election commissions, as well as the machine voting recording devices;
33. deliver the rest of the papers and materials to the Municipal administration with the exception of those destined for the Central Election Commission not later than 7 days as of the declaration of the election results;
34. exercise any other powers as provided for in the Code.

(2) The Municipal election commission shall make public the decisions thereof without delay by means of displaying the said decisions in a generally accessible place in the building where the said commission is housed and by means of publishing on the Internet site thereof. The place for making the
decisions public shall be determined by decision of the commission forthwith after the appointment thereof and shall be arranged in a manner indicating the assigned use thereof. The copies of the decisions which are made public shall be marked with the date and hour of the display thereof in the generally accessible place. The copies of the decisions made public shall be removed not earlier than three days after the display thereof in the generally accessible place and shall be kept in the archives of the commission.