LAW ON LOCAL ELECTIONS

22 December 1993

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Article 6

The right to vote and be elected a member of the municipal council - representative of the Italian or Hungarian ethnic community - shall be held by members of ethnic community who have the right to vote.

Article 7

The right to vote and be elected a member of the municipal council - representative of the Romany community shall be held by members of this community who have the right to vote.

Article 8

Voting rights of citizens shall be recorded in the general municipal electoral register.

Voting rights of citizens for the election of representatives of the Italian and Hungarian ethnic communities shall be recorded in the special municipal electoral register for citizens - members of these ethnic communities.

Voting rights of citizens for the election of the representative of the Romany community shall be recorded in the special municipal electoral register for citizens - members of this community.

The provision of the Law on the Register of Voting Rights shall apply to the keeping of the record of voting rights, compiling of municipal electoral registers, and other issues relating to the register of voting rights which are not specially regulated by the present Law.

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Article 10

Members of the municipal council - representatives of the Italian or Hungarian ethnic communities - shall be elected according to the majority principle.

Members of the municipal council - representatives of the Romany community - shall be elected according to the majority principle.

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Article 23

The constituency for the election of members of the municipal council - representatives of the Italian or Hungarian ethnic communities - and the constituency for the election of members of the municipal council - representatives of the Romany community - shall be the territory of the municipality.

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Article 33

Elections to the municipal council shall be managed and conducted by municipal electoral commissions.

Certain tasks relating to the conduct of local elections shall be performed by the Republic Electoral Commission.

A special municipal electoral commission shall be appointed for the elections of members of the municipal council - representatives of the Italian and Hungarian ethnic communities, and of members of the municipal council - representatives of the Romany community.

If, at proportional elections, members of the municipal council are elected in constituencies, constituency electoral commissions may be appointed.

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Article 36

At least one member and one deputy member of a special municipal electoral commission for the election of members of the municipal council - representatives of the Italian and Hungarian ethnic communities and of the Romany community - must belong to the ethnic community or to the Romany community.

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Article 49

Candidates for members of the municipal council, representatives of the Italian or Hungarian ethnic communities, shall be appointed by signatures of at least 15 voters - members of the ethnic community in the municipality.

Candidates for members of the municipal council, representatives of the Romany community, shall be appointed by voters - members of this community in the municipality.

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Article 116

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In ethnically mixed areas, the two ethnic communities have one tenth of municipal council members, or at least one member.