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Article 106
 

Determination of Results of Voting on Election of Members to the Council of the Republic

 

The votes cast by the deputies shall be counted by the members of the Counting Commission in a continuous procedure till the voting results are obtained.

 

The Counting Commission, on the basis of the list of deputies registered for participation in the sitting, shall determine the total number of deputies, taking part in the sitting, and the number of deputies who received the ballot papers. By counting the ballot papers contained in the ballot box, the Counting Commission shall determine the total number of deputies who took part in the vote, the number of votes for and against each of the candidates for election to the Council of the Republic and the number of ballot papers declared invalid.

 

The ballot papers differing from the established form and the ballot papers with the number of undeleted candidates for election to the Council of the Republic exceeding the number of members that shall be elected from the Oblast or the City of Minsk, as well as ballot papers the reverse side of which does not have signatures of the persons who are members of the Counting Commission shall be declared invalid.

 

The ballot-count results shall be considered at the sitting of the Counting Commission and recorded in the record. It shall not be allowed to write the record in pencil or make any correction in it.

 

The record shall be made in two copies, which shall be signed by all members of the Counting Commissions.

 

Following the presentation of the report by the Counting Commission, the sitting of deputies shall take an open ballot to pass a resolution on approval of the secret ballot results.

 

The elected member of the Council of the Republic shall be a candidate who have received, as a result of the vote, more than half of the votes of deputies of the local Council of Deputies of the base level of the Oblast and of the deputies of the Minsk City Council of Deputies, who have taken part in the ballot.

 

If the established number of members of the Council of the republic to be elected from the Oblast or the City of Minsk was not elected during the vote, then on decision of the sitting of the deputies a second round of vote on the candidatures that received the greatest number of votes shall be held.

 

If the established number of members of the Council of the republic to be elected from the Oblast or the City of Minsk was not elected in the second round of vote, then on new elections shall be held within the time period determined by the Central Commission as specified in Section VI of this Code.

 

The Counting Commission records shall be appended with the list of deputies of the local Council of Deputies of the base level of the Oblast or of the deputies of the Minsk City Council of Deputies who have taken part in the sitting, and with the statements of separate opinions, if any, of the members of the Counting Commission and of other persons, pertaining to the violations of the provisions of this Code, committed in the course of the voting and ballot-count procedures, and respective decisions rendered on these statements.


The original copies of the resolution, passed by the sitting of the deputies of the local Council of Deputies of the base level of the Oblast or of the deputies of the Minsk City Council of Deputies, approving the results of the secret ballot for the election of the members to the Council of the Republic, the records of the Counting Committee with the list of the deputies who have taken part in the session, shall be submitted to the Central Commission within two days.

 

The records of the sitting of the deputies of the local Council of Deputies of the base level of the Oblast or of the deputies of the Minsk City Council of Deputies and the second copies of the resolution, approving the results of the secret ballot, the records of the Counting Committee and the list of the deputies who have taken part in the session, shall be kept in the Oblast and the Minsk City Executive Committees.