(1) The National Election Office shall be led by a president. The president of the National Election Office shall be appointed by the President of the Republic, on a proposal from the Prime Minister, from among Hungarian citizens with higher education degree who have the right to stand as candidates at the election of the Members of the National Assembly.

(2) A person may not be appointed as the president of the National Election Office if in the four-year period before the proposal for appointment is put forward he served as the President of the Republic, a member of the Government, the political director of the Prime Minister, a State Secretary, a representative, a deputy mayor, Deputy Capital Mayor or an officer or employee of a political party.

(3) The President of the Republic shall appoint the president of the National Election Office for a term of nine years.

(4) Upon being appointed, the president of the National Election Office shall take the oath or affirmation before the President of the Republic, reciting the wording laid down in the Act on the oath and affirmation of certain public law officers.