§ Electoral Code art. 37Powers of the electoral constituency council

Powers of the electoral constituency council
(1) During the electoral period, the electoral constituency council shall have the
following functions:
a) exercise control over the implementation of the provisions of this Code and of other
legislative acts containing provisions on the conduct of elections;
b) set up, under the terms of this Code, first-level electoral constituencies and polling
stations, first-level electoral constituency councils and electoral bureaux of polling stations,
supervise their activity;
c) propose that duties at the permanent place of work be relieved and/or that the
members of the second-level electoral constituency council be summoned and the
organisation chart of its apparatus be approved;
d) decide to relieve members of first-level electoral councils and, as appropriate,
electoral bureaux from duties at the permanent place of work during their work in the
composition of such councils and bureaux;
e) distribute financial means to the electoral bureaux of the polling stations and, as
appropriate, to the first-level electoral constituency councils, as well as ensure that they are
provided with the materials and forms of electoral documents necessary for the smooth
organisation and conduct of the electoral process;
f) examine communications and complaints relating to the organisation and conduct
of elections, submitted by local public administration authorities, businesses, institutions and
organisations involved in the electoral process and, as appropriate, take action on those
communicated or referred to;
g) decide on applications for registration of initiative groups, independent candidates
and candidates/lists of candidates from political parties in local elections, and publicise
information about them;
h) receive, examine and publish reports on the financing of election campaigns of
independent candidates in local elections, as well as on the financing of the work of the
initiative groups set up to collect signatures to support those candidates;
i) ensure public access to the declaration of assets and interests of electoral
competitors registered in local elections, in accordance with the provisions of this Code;
j) examine applications and appeals on decisions and actions/inactions of the
electoral bureaux of polling stations, as appropriate, to first-level electoral constituency
councils;
k) examine applications and appeals on actions/inactions of registered electoral
competitors and initiative groups, as well as on the financing of election campaigns of
independent candidates in local elections;
l) collect and systematise information from the electoral bureaux of polling stations on
the opening of polling stations, voter turnout, where applicable, the existence of incidents at
polling stations, the totalisation of preliminary election results and hand it over to the Central
Electoral Commission via the State Automated Information System ‘Elections’ or other means;
m) totalise the results of the constituency elections, submit the electoral documents
and materials to the Central Electoral Commission, ensure that they are displayed on its
premises and at the local public administration, in accordance with this Code and the
instruction approved by the Commission to that effect;
n) decide to approve the report of the totalisation of the results of the local elections in
the constituency concerned, confirm or invalidate their legality;
o) declare the elected candidates, award and validate, while confirming the legality of
local elections, the mandates of elected mayors and local councillors, confirm the list of
alternate candidates, and adopt decisions to that effect;
p) assist the hierarchically superior electoral bodies in carrying out supervisory and
control tasks in relation to the financing of campaign and political parties;
q) carry out other actions relating to the organisation and conduct of elections.
(2) The chairperson of the second-level electoral constituency council shall carry out
the following duties:
a) represent the council in relations with the Central Electoral Commission, other
public authorities, companies, institutions, media, organisations, political parties, electoral
competitors, and citizens;
b) ensure the preservation of assets received from the local public administration
authority and the Central Electoral Commission, subject to material liability under the law;
c) be the authorising officer of the financial resources allocated to the council;
d) provides for the organisation of the work of the council within the limits of its
competence;
e) conclude, on behalf of the council, contracts relating to the organisation and
performance of permanent work in the constituency, as well as individual employment
agreements, service agreements for the duration of the performance of permanent activities;
f) inform the members of the council, the voters and the subjects concerned of the
implementation, within the limits of the competences established, of the decisions of the
Central Electoral Commission and of other administrative acts relating to the application of
electoral procedures;
g) participate in the procedures for updating the data and information contained in the
State Registry of Voters, as well as in the procedures for checking and updating electoral rolls
in the constituency concerned;
h) contribute, within established functional limits, to the performance by the Central
Electoral Commission of tasks of oversight and control over compliance with legislation on the
financing of political parties and election campaigns;
i) provide assistance in the organisation and conduct of electoral and civic education
activities organised by the Central Electoral Commission and the Centre for Continuous
Electoral Training;
j) assist in the training and certification of electoral subjects in the electoral
constituency by the Centre for Continuous Electoral Training;
k) monitor the respect for the principle of equality between men and women by the
subjects participating in the electoral process by checking documents, systematising and
submitting statistical data in this regard;
l) exercise the other powers provided for in this Code, the Rules of Procedure of the
electoral council, approved by the Commission, and other legislative acts in the field of
elections.
Section 3
Polling stations and electoral bureaux of polling stations