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

PArt iv  Execution of electoral budget as approved by the
government
sUPPLEMENtArY
iNforMAtioN  Transport and direct transfer of electoral reports
to Constitutional Court and Court of the State.

ELECTION BASIC INFORMATION  Transport and transfer of ballot results and con-
solidation of results
1. Date of formation  Announcement of provisional results
2001
 Facilitation of the control of ballots by the con-
2. Main functions of EMB stitutional, administrative jurisdictions and the
Electoral Code Art. 14 political parties
1. Pre-electoral periods 3. Post electoral period

 Preparatory operations prior to elections  Gather all electoral documents and materials
 Keep up to date the national electoral files and and deposit and conserve them
the documents, and materials
 Updating and conservation of the national elec-
 Revise electoral lists toral file, revision of electoral lists, establish-

 Establish and distribute voter cards ment and distribution of voter cards, publishing
of electoral lists CENI can be assisted, upon
 Provide and/or supervise the training of electoral request by Public Administration of Territory de-
officials
partments
 Prepare the annual operating budget and submit
to government for approval
3. Number of political parties
 Carry out an inventory and estimate of costs of 130+
equipment inherent to carry out electoral opera-
tions 4. Number of polling stations
 Contribute to providing civic education to the cit- 889
izens
5. Voting age
 Acquire and distribute equipment and supplies 18
for electoral operations
 Manage the financial and material resources 6. Election system
Presidential : two round system, simple majority
 Receive and process the candidate files for leg-
islative and local elections Parliamentary : proportional representation using

 Publish the list of candidates the ‘greatest remainder’ electoral quotient system
 Deliver specimens of ballot papers and adver- (2-9 seats in each constituency)
tising posters to candidates of political parties
during campaign Local elections : Art. 239 Electoral Code, municipal

 Accredit international observers and take part in councilors are elected based on proportional rep-
observation of foreign elections resentation using the largest remainder allocation
method
2. During the electoral period
7. Opening and closing time of polling stations
 Security of the polls
Opening: 6 am
 Coordinate all structures responsible for elector-
al operations Closing : 6 pm

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