Entry in the List

(1) (Amend. and suppl. - SG 36/21, in force from 01.05.2021) Any voter, whereof the permanent and present addresses are located in different populated settlements, may request to be entered on the electoral list according to the present address thereof not later than 14 days in advance of election day. Any such request shall be submitted in writing to the Municipality Mayor, the region Mayor, the mayoralty Mayor or to the Lieutenant Mayor or by an electronic application via the Internet site of the Directorate General Civil Registration and Administrative Services at the Ministry of Regional Development and Public Works. In the electronic application the voter shall enter his / her names by identity document, the type and number of the identity document, the date, place and body of the issuance, his / her unique civil number, compares his / her permanent and current address and indicates a telephone number, no signature required. The Directorate General Civil Registration and Administrative Services checks the data in the received electronic applications automatically at the same time as their submission.

(2) Upon conduct of elections of Municipal councillors and Mayors, the request referred to in Para. (1) herein shall be submitted subject to the condition that the voter has had a present address in the relevant populated settlement during the last six months in advance of election day. The request referred to in Para. (1) herein shall furthermore state the date of the present-address registration.

(3) (Amend. – SG 98/14, in force from 28.11.2014, suppl. - SG 36/21, in force from 01.05.2021) The authority referred to in Art. 23, Para. 1 exercising jurisdiction over the present address shall transmit information on the requests referred to in Para. (1) herein which have been submitted to the Directorate General of Civil Registration and Administrative Services at the Ministry of Regional Development and Public Works, not later than 12 days in advance of election day for automated inclusion of the voter in the electoral lists according to the present address and the deletion from the electoral list according to the permanent address. The first sentence shall apply accordingly to the electronic applications submitted through the website of the Directorate General Civil Registration and Administrative Services.

(4) After the voter’s entry in the election list according to permanent address, Non-resident Voting Certificate shall not be issued.