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Section 5
 

(1) Each nominating organisation nominating a candidate and each independent candidate may delegate not more than two observers to each diplomatic mission. Nominating organisations that nominate joint candidates may jointly delegate not more than two observers.


(2) Only voters recorded in the central electoral register may act as observers at diplomatic missions.


(3) Observers at diplomatic missions shall be notified to the National Election Commission ten days before the voting day in Hungary at the latest, providing their name and personal identifier, or, in the absence of the latter, the type and number of the official identity verification card. The National Election Commission shall enter the observers at diplomatic missions into a register. The National Election Office shall send the name and personal identifier, or, in the absence of the latter, the type and number of the official identity verification card, of the observers at diplomatic missions to the head of the election office at the relevant diplomatic mission.


(4) Observers at diplomatic missions who are registered with the National Election Commission may be present while the diplomatic mission election office carries out its work. Observers at diplomatic missions


a) may observe the work of the diplomatic mission election office,


b) shall not interfere in or hinder the voting and the work of the diplomatic mission election office either actively or by way of implied conduct,


c) may record their comments in the minutes drawn up on the closing of voting,


d) may lodge objections,


e) may sign the sealed ballot box after the closing of the voting,


f) shall wear a registration badge in the polling station.


(5) The costs related to the delegation and activity of observers at diplomatic missions shall be borne by the delegator referred to in paragraph (1).