Trusted people of electoral competitors (1) In each electoral constituency electoral competitors may have trusted people who have the right to vote. Trusted people shall help their electoral competitors run their election campaigns, make electoral agitations in their favour and represent their interests in relations with public authorities, voters, electoral councils and bureaux. (2) The number of trusted persons, the confirmation procedure, their rights and obligations shall be determined by this Code and the rules on the activity of trusted people, approved by decision of the Central Electoral Commission. (3) The Central Electoral Commission shall confirm the trusted people of the electoral competitors in the parliamentary and presidential elections, as well as the participants in the Republican referendum. In the case of local elections and referenda, the relevant electoral constituency council shall confirm the trusted persons of electoral competitors and referendum participants. That electoral body shall confirm, by decision, the trusted persons of the electoral competitors (referendum participants). (4) Electoral competitors may, no later than 7 days before the day of the election, ask the electoral body concerned to further confirm the trusted people, suspend their powers of attorney or replace them with other people, in compliance with the number criteria and conditions laid down in this Article and the rules approved by the Central Electoral Commission. (5) Decisions of the electoral body on confirmation, refusal of confirmation and/or substitution of trusted people may be challenged under the conditions of Chapter XIII. (6) In presidential and local elections, the trusted people of electoral competitors, confirmed in the prescribed manner, may also operate in the second ballot. Trusted people of electoral competitors holding public functions cannot use public means and goods in the election campaign. (7) The provisions of this Article shall also apply to the participants in the referendum.
§ Electoral Code art. 71Trusted people of electoral competitors
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