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An Independent National Electoral Commission [Comission électoral nationale Indépendante (CENI)] is charged with the organization, development and supervision of the voting operations. It proclaims the provisional results.
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1. The Electoral Commission shall have general responsibility for and shall supervise the registration of electors and the conduct of elections to Parliament, the Malvatumauri Council of Chiefs, provincial government and municipal councils. The Commission shall have such powers and functions relating to such registration and elections as may be prescribed by Parliament.
2. The Principal Electoral Officer shall have such powers and functions relating to such registration and elections as may be prescribed by Parliament. The Principal Electoral Officer shall keep the Commission fully informed concerning the exercise of his functions and shall have the right to attend meetings of the Commission, and shall comply with any directions that the Commission may give to him in the exercise of his functions.
... (Art. 20)

A National Authority of Elections [Autorité Nationale des Elections], abbreviated A.N.E.[,] is instituted. (Art. 143)

The Independent National Electoral Commission [Comission électoral nationale Indépendante (CENI)] is charged with the establishment and the updating [mise à jour] of the electoral list [fichier], the organization, the procedure [déroulement] and the supervision of the voting operations. It proclaims the provisional results. (Art. 132)

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An independent commission, whose composition and rules of organization and operation shall be set down by statute, shall publicly express an opinion on the Government and Private Members’ Bills defining the constituencies for the election of Members of the National Assembly, or modifying the distribution of the seats of Members of the National Assembly or of Senators. (1958 Constitution, Art. 25)

The Permanent Electoral Council is responsible for organizing and controlling with complete independence all electoral procedures throughout the territory of the Republic until the results of the election are announced. (Art. 191)

The Commission is responsible for the following missions:
a) To organize the elections at the national level, at the level of the communes and at that of the collines or of the quartiers;
b) To see to it that the elections are free, regular and transparent;
c) To proclaim the provisional results of the elections within a time period defined by the law;
d) To promulgate the arrangements, the code of conduct and the technical details, including the location of the polls [bureaux de vote] and the hours in which they are open;
e) To receive the claims concerning the respect for the electoral rules and to process them [y donner suite];
f) The decisions of the Commission are without appeal;
g) To see to it, applying the appropriate rules, that the electoral campaigns do not take place [se déroulent] in a manner that incites to ethnic violence or in any other manner contrary to this Constitution;
h) To assure the respect for the provisions of this Constitution relative to multiethnicity and to gender[,] and to take cognizance of the claims in this respect. (Art. 92)

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The elections are organized and supervised by an Independent National Electoral Commission.
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The Independent Superior Instance for the Elections is responsible for the administration of the elections and of the referendums, of their organization and of their supervision in their different phases. The Instance guarantees the regularity, the integrity and the transparency of the electoral process and proclaims the results.
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An Independent National Electoral Commission [Commission Electorale Nationale Indépendente] guarantees the freedom, the impartiality and the independence of the electoral process. (Art. 90)