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Paragraph 88
 

The legal provisions for local elections differ from those at national level in several respects. For European democracies, this difference is a common feature, because the relationship between voters and representatives at local level is generally regarded as closer than at national level. The relevant stipulations thus follow an international trend to design specific legal provisions for the local context. These include



a lower age of candidacy (21 instead of 25 years at national level; Article 100.1);



the non-existence of external voting (Article 110.3);



an electoral system (plurality system with “multiple vote”[9]) which enhances the ties between voters and representatives (Article 111).