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Article 35
 

Procedure for Nomination of Representatives for Territorial, District and precinct Commissions

Political parties, other public associations, labour collectives of organisations or collectives of their structural divisions from their members as well as citizens by way of submissions of the application may nominate only one representative in each case for the respective territorial, district and precinct commission.

 

The following bodies shall have the right to nominate their representatives as members of the commissions:

the republican managerial bodies of political parties and other public associations – for the district electoral commissions on elections of deputies of the Chamber of Representatives;

the territorial managerial bodies of political parties and other public associations that have lower organisational structures – for the respective territorial, district electoral commissions on elections of Oblast Councils of Deputies as well as precinct commissions; meetings of their primary organisations operating in the territory of the region, town, settlement or rural Council – for the town (in towns subordinated to regions), settlement and rural territorial and precinct commissions;

meetings (conferences) of labour collectives of organisations located in the territory of the region, town, town district, settlement and rural Council with the number of the employees not less than 30 persons – for the territorial, district and precinct commissions. Representatives for membership on the town (in towns subordinated to regions), settlement, rural territorial and precinct commissions may be nominated also at meetings of workers of the structural subdivisions of organisations including not less than 10 employees. When representatives for the commissions are nominated from the structural subdivisions, nomination of representatives for the same commissions from the whole labour collective shall not be made. The meeting is competent if it is attended by more than half the composition of the collective. Conferences in labour collectives shall be held if convocation of meetings presents a problem because of the number of employees, multi-shift operation conditions or territorial scatter of the structural divisions and shall be competent when they are attended by at least two-thirds of the delegates elected according to the procedure established in the labour collective. Decision of the meeting (conference) of a labour collective shall be taken by the majority of votes of its participants. Representatives of the town (in towns subordinated to regions), settlement, rural territorial and precinct commissions may be nominated at meetings of workers of several structural divisions or several labour collectives and structural divisions with the total number of workers not less than 10 persons at their general meeting. A meeting shall be competent if more than half of the members of each such collective are present.

 

Managerial bodies of political parties and other public associations shall nominate their representatives for the commissions at their sittings.

 

Also citizens enjoying suffrage shall have the right to nominate their representatives as members of the commissions by way of submissions of the application:

when nominating a representative for the district electoral commission for elections of deputies of the Chamber of Representatives, if the application is signed by not less than 100 citizens living in the territory of the electoral district;

when nominating a representative for the territorial (except for settlement and rural) and district electoral commissions for elections of the Oblast Councils of Deputies and the territorial electoral commissions that execute in the districts of the City of Minsk the powers of the district electoral commissions for elections of deputies of the Minsk City Council of Deputies, if the application is signed by not less than 30 citizens living in the respective territory;

when nominating a representative for the settlement and rural territorial and precinct commissions, if the application is signed by not less than 10 citizens living in the territory of the settlement, rural Council or the polling station, respectively.

 

Nomination of representatives for the commissions on the holding of voting for recall of a deputy shall be made according to the procedure stipulated by parts two, three and four of this article.

 

When nominating a representative for the respective commission, minutes of the meeting (conference) or sitting or an application signed by citizens shall be submitted to the bodies that form the commissions not later than three days before the term set by this Code for the formation of the respective commission.

 

The minutes shall specify the name of managerial body of the political party or another public association that nominated its representative for the commission, its address and telephone number, the number of the members of the body (collective), the number of the participants in the meeting or sitting of this body (collective), the results of the voting, the date of decision making, the surname, name and patronymic name, the date of birth, the position occupied (occupation), the place of work and residence of the persons nominated as member of the commission. The respective data shall be specified also in the minutes of the meeting of the labour collective, a primary organisation of the political part or of another public association. The minutes shall be signed by the chairman and secretary of the meeting or sitting. The application of citizens who nominated a representative for the commissions by submitting an application shall specify the respective data, enumerated in this part of this article, on the person nominated as member of the commission as well as the surname, name and patronymic name, the date of birth and the place of residence of each citizen who signed the application.

 

The bodies that form the commission shall have the right to include their representatives as members of these commissions.