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Article 155
 

Basic Terms Used in this Code

 

The following basic terms are used in this Code:

Agitation materials are printed and other materials containing signs of election agitation, agitation on the referendum or recall or the deputy designed for mass distribution during the holding of elections, referendum or recall of the deputy;

Election agitation is activities of citizens of the Republic of Belarus, political parties, other public associations, labour collectives, candidates, their proxies and initiative groups collecting signatures for nomination of candidates and making agitation for their election aimed at inducement or inducing electors to participation in elections and voting for or against certain candidates;

Agitation for the referendum is activities of citizens of the Republic of Belarus, initiative group for the holding of the referendum, political parties, other public associations and labour collectives aimed at inducement or inducing participants in the referendum to holding the referendum or rejecting its holding or vote "for" or "against" the question (draft decision) offered for the referendum;

Elections are elections of the President of the Republic of Belarus, deputies of the Chamber of Representatives, members of the Council of the Republic and deputies of local Councils of Deputies held on the basis of the Constitution of the Republic of Belarus and this Code;

Deputy is the person elected by the electors of the respective electoral district to the Chamber of Representatives or the local Council of Deputies on the basis of universal, equal and direct suffrage through secret ballot;

Elector is the citizen of the Republic of Belarus having the right to elect to the state bodies as provided for by the Constitution of the Republic of Belarus and this Code;

Election campaign is the period from the day of official publication of the decision of the President of the Republic of Belarus or of the state body authorised by the Constitution of the Republic of Belarus or by this Code on the appointment of elections as from the day of official publication of the election results;

Commissions are electoral commissions, commissions on the referendum and commissions on the holding of vote on recall of the deputy;

Electoral commissions are commissions on elections of the President of the Republic of Belarus, commissions on elections of deputies of the Chamber of Representatives and commissions on elections of deputies of local Councils of Deputies;

Electoral district is the territory from which citizens of the Republic of Belarus directly elect the President of the Republic of Belarus, deputies of the Chamber of Representatives and deputies of the local Councils of Deputies;

Candidate is the person registered by the respective commission as candidate for the position of the President of the Republic of Belarus, candidate for the deputy of the Chamber of Representative, candidate for the Council of the Republic or candidate of the local Council of Deputies;

Observer is the person representing a foreign State or an international organisation who acquired in conformity with this Code the right to be present during the holding of elections or referendum at the sitting of the respective commissions and in rooms for voting;

Representative of public is the person authorised by the political party, another public association, labour collective and citizens to be present during the holding of elections, referendum or recall of the deputy at the sittings of the respective commission and in rooms for voting;

Participant in the referendum is the citizen of the Republic of Belarus enjoying suffrage and taking part in the holding of the referendum.