Criteria for appointment of the polling board in the standing composition

The number of chairpersons, deputy chairperson, members and deputy members of all polling boards in the standing composition on the territory of a certain local electoral commission belonging to a parliamentary group must be proportional to its representation in the National Assembly on the day the decision on calling the elections comes into force.

A parliamentary group which, on the day when the decision on calling the elections comes into force, has more than half of the total number of MPs, shall nominate in one half of the polling boards a chairperson and two deputy members, and in the other half of the polling boards shall nominate a deputy chairperson, one member and another member’s deputy, while the remaining positions in the polling boards shall be allocated to other parliamentary groups proportionately to their representation in the National Assembly on the day when the decision on calling the elections came into force.

No parliamentary group may nominate both the chairperson and deputy chairperson of the polling board at one polling station.

Based on the criteria stipulated by law, the Republic Electoral Commission shall prescribe and timely publish on its website the order of positions for the territory of each local electoral commission according to which parliamentary groups shall nominate members and deputy members of the polling boards in the standing composition.

A single MP or parliamentary groups which have less than the number of MPs required to form a parliamentary group shall also be deemed a parliamentary group for the purpose of nominating members of the polling board in the standing composition if:

1) All such MPs are elected from the same electoral list;
2) The electoral list on which they were elected has not won the required number of seats to form a parliamentary group;
3) None of them has joined any parliamentary group;
4) All such MPs have signed a nomination of a member / deputy member of polling board in the standing composition.