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Brief Profiles of Countries, EMBs and Partner Organisations of A-WEB

6. Compulsory Voting  The establishment of the list of international ob-
No servers to be invited by the government which
establishes the accreditations;
PArt iv
 The establishment of the code for observation;
sUPPLEMENtArY
iNforMAtioN  Assigning identification documents to observers
and coordinating their activities; The publication
of major trends in provisional results.
ELECTION BASIC INFORMATION
3. Number of political parties
1. Date of formation 250 parties (only 2 run in 2019)
1995
4. Number of polling stations
2. Main functions of EMB 13,106 polling stations
Electoral Code Art. 15

 Preparation, organization, conduct, supervision District Number of polling
of voting operations and centralization of re- stations
sults;
Alibori 1082
 The organization and supervision of referendum Atacora 984
and electoral operations;

 The preparation of documents, acts and proce- Atlantique 1866
dures which must, on the one hand, ensure the Borgou 1499
regularity, security, transparency of the ballots
and, on the other hand, guarantee voters and Collines 986
candidates the free exercise of their rights; Couffo 923
 The training of electoral agents; Informing citi- Donga 681
zens about the content of the electoral code;

 Ordering and deploying election materials; Littoral 887
 Ordering ballots and all election materials; Mono 674
 The distribution of electoral materials in the poll- Queme 1501
ing centers;
Plateau 837
 Registration of applications and their publica-
tion; Zou 1186
 The study of candidate files;
5. Voting age
 The appointment of representatives of the ma- 18
jority and of the Parliamentary opposition in the
polling stations, after designation of these by the 6. Election system
National Assembly; Presidential: two round system, uninominal abso-

Information on elections # seats Term of office # candidates / political parties #districts

Presidential Elections 1 5 2 1
National Assembly 83 4 2 12
(unicameral)

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