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Article 132
 

Competence of a Meeting of Electors in Initiating a Question of

 

Recalling a Deputy, and the Procedure of its Holding

 

A meeting of electors in the place of living, in case of initiating the question of recalling a deputy, shall be considered competent if attended by the electors living on the territory in the number of at least:

300 electors - when initiating the question of recalling a deputy of the Chamber of Representatives;

150 electors - when initiating the question of recalling a deputy of the Oblast or the Minsk City Council of Deputies;

75 electors - when initiating the question of recalling a deputy of the regional or town (in towns of Oblast subordination) Council of Deputies; and

20 electors - when initiating the question of recalling a deputy of the town (in towns of district subordination), settlement or rural Council of Deputies.

 

A meeting of electors in the labour collective of an organisation that is the artificial person, listing at least 300 persons, when initiating the question of recalling a deputy of the Chamber of Representatives shall be competent if attended by more than a half of the staff of the collective.

 

Initiation of the question of recalling a deputy of the Chamber of Representatives may be decided at the general meeting of several smaller labour collectives of organisations that are artificial persons, with a total number of employees of at least 300 persons. In this case, from every collective of an enterprise, institution, or organisation more than half of the staff shall be present.

 

Meetings of electors in the labour collectives for initiating the question of recalling a deputy of a local Council of Deputies may be held in collectives enlisting at least:

150 employees - when initiating the question of recalling a deputy of the Oblast or the Minsk City Council of Deputies;

75 employees - when initiating the question of recalling a deputy of the regional or town (in towns of Oblast subordination) Council of Deputies; and

20 employees - when initiating the question of recalling a deputy of the town (in towns of district subordination), settlement or rural Council of Deputies.

 

The meeting shall be considered competent if more than a half of the staff of the collective is taking part in it.

 

In conformity with the procedure stipulated by part four of Article 63 of this Code the initiation of the issue of recalling a deputy of the Chamber of Representatives or a deputy of the local Council of Deputies may be made also at a conference of the labour collective.

 

The initiators of calling up the meeting must, not later than ten days before holding a meeting of voters, notify in writing the deputy in relation to whom they are going to initiate the question of recall, as well as inform, respectively, the Chamber of Representatives or the local Council of Deputies, from where it is proposed to recall the deputy, about the date, the place of holding the meeting of electors and the motives that served the basis for initiating the question of recalling the deputy.

 

Before starting the meeting of electors, a registration shall be held of its participants with indication of surnames, names, patronymic names, dates of birth and places of living. Each participant in the meeting shall sign with his own hand in the list of electors taking part in the meeting.

 

At the meeting of electors the presidium shall be elected comprising the chairman, the secretary and the members, and, if necessary, the counting commission, proposals shall be considered to initiate the question of recalling a deputy, to start collecting signatures of the electors of the district in support of this proposal, and to form an initiative group for collecting signatures in support of the proposal to initiate the question of recalling a deputy and for launching agitation (hereinafter - initiative group). The initiative group shall be formed in the number of at least five persons. Decisions of the meeting shall be taken by the majority of votes.

 

The number of meetings of electors held in the district, at which the question may be initiated to recall a deputy and initiative groups formed, shall not be limited, but they must take place within 30 days since the registration date of the first initiative group.

 

The meeting of electors may be attended by deputies of the Chamber of Representatives, local Councils of Deputies, official persons, authorised by the Chairman of the local Council of Deputies in the territory of which the meeting of electors is held, or by the chairman of the local Council of Deputies from the composition of which it is proposed to recall a deputy as well as representatives of mass media may also be present at the meeting.

 

Minutes are made on the holding of the meeting of electors. The minutes shall indicate the date and the place of the meeting, the number of participants, the subject of the questions considered, the results of voting and the decisions taken, the staff of the initiative group formed, with indication of surnames, names, patronymic names and the residence of each of the members thereof.

 

The minutes shall be signed by the chairman and secretary of the meeting, and submitted, not later than in five days period, together with the lists of participants in the meeting and the list of the initiative group, to:

the Central Commission - when initiating the question of recalling a deputy of the Chamber of Representatives; and

the Oblast, Minsk City, regional, town, settlement and rural territorial electoral commission - when initiating the question of recalling a deputy of the respective local Council of Deputies.