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Section 1
 

(1) The exercise of suffrage shall be based on a decision freely taken by the voter.


(2) A voter may vote either at his domicile or, if he established a place of residence beside his domicile by the 30th day before election date is set, at his registered place of residence.


(3) A voter may stand as a candidate in any constituency.


(4) A person who is serving, under a final and binding judgment, a sentence of imprisonment or subjected to compulsory psychiatric treatment in an institute ordered in a criminal proceeding shall not be eligible to stand as a candidate at the election of local government representatives and mayors.