The National Election Committee, acting within its competence as laid down in Section 34 (2) a) of Act C of 1997 on Electoral Procedure (hereinafter: Ve.), issues the following

resolution

According to the provisions of Ve. Section 21 (2), "election committees" are: a) the vote counting committee, b) the local election committee, c) the individual constituency election committee, d) the territorial election committee, e) the National Election Committee.

According to Ve. Section 22 (2): "A member of an election committee may not be the President of the Republic, a state leader, the head of an administrative office, a representative, the president of a county assembly, a mayor, a clerk, a chief clerk, a member of an election office, a civil servant of an administrative body operating in the area of competence of the election committee, or a candidate."

Ve. Section 149 h) defines in the interpretative provisions who is considered a representative for the purpose of applying the Ve.: "h) representative: a parliamentary representative, a member of the European Parliament, a member of the representative body of a local government, a member of the county assembly, a member of the metropolitan assembly, a member of a minority self-government."

The term "representative" used in Ve. Section 22 (2) includes all the positions listed in Section 149 h), regardless of which election committee (vote counting committee, local election committee, individual constituency election committee, territorial election committee, National Election Committee) is in question.

Therefore, the term "representative" used in Ve. Section 149 h) is strictly defined; there is no possibility of a broad or narrow interpretation.

* The text was established by Resolution 5/2010. OVB