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Article 6
 

(1) Election commissions and polling station commissions shall consist of Latvian citizens who know the Latvian language and who have at least a general secondary education.

(2) Members of the Saeima or members of a city council, county council or pagasts council may not be members of election commissions or polling station commissions.

(3) A person who has been nominated as a candidate for elections or a person who has submitted a list of candidates may not be a member of a polling station commission.

(4) The same person may not be a member of several commissions.

(5) Chairpersons, secretaries and members of city, district, county and pagasts election commissions and polling station commissions shall not be regarded as state officials in the context of the Law On Prevention of Conflict of Interest in the Work of Public Officials.

(As amended by the 19.06.1998 law, the 02.11.2000 law and the 13.06.2002 law)