§ Article 41(untitled)

Fundamentals for formation of electoral commissions

1. Citizens, having the right of suffrage and meeting the requirements of Articles 42

 and 43 of this Code, may respectively be included in the composition of the

 Central Electoral Commission and district electoral commissions.

2. Persons convicted of crimes, as well as intentionally committed crimes of medium

 gravity, grave or particularly grave crimes provided for by Articles 149-154.6 of the

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 Criminal Code of the Republic of Armenia may not act as member of electoral

 commission. Deputies of the National Assembly, ministers and their deputies,

 heads of communities, marz governors and their deputies, judges, prosecutors,

 officers of investigation bodies, officers of the Police, the National Security

 Service, the Judicial Acts Compulsory Enforcement Service, officers of the

 Penitentiary, Probation and Rescue Services, military servants, proxies,

 authorised representatives of the political party running in elections, the

 candidate for a community head and a member of a council of elders, observers,

 candidates may not act as member of district and precinct electoral commissions.

 Members of councils of elders may not also act as members of district electoral

 commissions. The Central Electoral Commission may prescribe higher

 qualification criteria for chairperson and secretary of precinct electoral

 commission than for members of precinct electoral commission.

3. Persons having the right of suffrage and having a qualification certificate for

 being included in an electoral commission may be included in the composition of

 precinct electoral commission.

4. Following the formation of district electoral commissions, the Central Electoral

 Commission shall carry out training of members of those commissions.

5. The Central Electoral Commission shall — in the manner it has prescribed —

 organise and conduct professional courses on holding elections for candidates

 for members of electoral commissions. The courses shall be organised in

 Yerevan and in marzes, at least once a year, based on the applications of

 citizens, the lists submitted by political parties. Persons included in the submitted

 lists, as well as persons having submitted an application shall participate in the

 professional courses in compliance with the schedule (date, time, venue)

 published by the Central Electoral Commission in advance. The persons referred

 to may participate in a test, irrespective of the fact of participating in the course,

 in compliance with the published schedule. Qualification certificates shall be

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 issued based on the test. The test shall be carried out through computer-based

 or standard testing method. Representatives of mass media, non-governmental

 organisations may follow the process of the courses and the test.

6. A citizen may simultaneously be included in the composition of only one electoral

 commission, except for the case prescribed by this part for a member of the

 precinct electoral commission. A citizen may simultaneously be a member of

 more than one precinct electoral commissions where different dates for holding

 elections are prescribed.

7. Information on the composition of electoral commissions shall be published as

 prescribed by the Central Electoral Commission.

 (Article 41 amended by HO-119-N of 30 June 2016 , amended, edited by
 HO-158-N of 20 October 2018, amended, supplemented by HO-318-N of
 4 May 2018)