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Article 17
 

The Ministry shall, within 48 hours of the day of calling for election, announce in public in all daily newspapers published in Montenegro and on its website a numerical and tabular review of the data on the changes made to the Voter Register as a whole and by local self-government units in relation to the Voter Register according to which previous elections were held on the state level, and the review shall also include the data on electors who have acquired the right to vote and the grounds for acquiring such right, as well as the data on persons who have lost the right to vote, and the grounds for losing such right.


The Ministry shall announce in public the data referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article within 48 hours from the day of final closing of the Voter Register referred to in Article 18 of this Law.


The numerical review of the data referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 of this Article shall include:


1)    number of electors;


2)    number of newly registered electors:


-          electors who have gained the right to vote due to coming of age,


-          electors who have registered permanent residence in Montenegro and


-          electors who have acquired the right to vote by being accepted to Montenegrin citizenship.


3)    number of electors for whose registration changes were made based on registration and/or cancellation of registration of permanent residence in Montenegro;


4)    number of electors deleted in respect of:


-          fact of death,


-          loss of Montenegrin citizenship and


-          cancellation of registration of permanent residence.


5)    number of electors who have changed their personal names;


6)    number of electors whose unique ID numbers have been changed;


7)    number of electors whose date of registration of the latest permanent residence has been changed;


8)    number of electors whose date of registration of permanent residence in Montenegro has been changed;


9)    number of electors whose polling stations have been changed


number of electors whose polling station was changed due to the opening of a new or abolition of an existing polling station, i.e. division into several polling stations or change of apartment address.


The Ministry shall submit all data submit numeric tabular review of data on electors to whom the changes referred to in paragraphs 1, 2 and 3 of this Article are related, to a parliamentary party, or a submitter of a verified electoral list, or a non-governmental organisation that is issued an authorisation to monitor elections by a competent authority, at their request.


The Ministry shall also publish, or deliver the data on electors referred to in paragraphs 1, 2, 3 and 4 of this Article for local elections, when they are not held simultaneously with the elections on the state level.


In the case referred to in paragraph 5 of this Article, numerical review of data on the changes made in the Voter Register for a local self-government unit where the elections take place, shall be published in relation to the Voter Register based on which previous elections were held in that local self-government unit.