Ballot Papers for Elections to Municipal Council

(1) A ballot paper for elections to municipal council common for all the registered candidates shall be executed for each constituency. All the registered candidates must be listed on one side of the ballot paper. The Local Electoral Commission shall verify the correctness of the data provided in the ballot paper and it shall attach municipality’s official seal to the original of the ballot paper. The original of the ballot paper shall represent the background document for printing of ballot papers.

(2) The necessary number of ballot papers pursuant to Paragraph 1 shall be provided for by the Local Electoral Commission through the District Office.

(3) The ballot paper shall contain the date of elections, candidates in alphabetical order, each of them with the serial number, name and surname, degree, age, employment of the candidate according to the list of candidates, and name of the political party or names of the political parties creating a coalition that proposed the candidate or information that the candidate is independent. The candidates must be listed in the ballot paper in alphabetical order by surnames. The ballot paper must contain the number of the constituency and the number of members of the municipal council to be elected in the constituency.

(4) If the political party uses capital letters in its name, its name shall be provided in the ballot paper in the same way as the names of the other political parties.

(5) The District Office shall deliver the ballot papers to municipalities, which will ensure that no later than on the date of elections the ballot papers are delivered to District Electoral Commissions.

(6) The voter shall receive the ballot papers in the polling station on the date of election.