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Electoral Bodies
- English1. Election campaigns shall be conducted under the management of the election commisions at each level within the limit set by law, and equal opportunity shall be guaranteed.
2. Except as otherwise prescribed by law, expenditures for elections shall not be imposed on political parties or candidates. (Art. 116) - Korean①선거운동은 각급 선거관리위원회의 관리하에 법률이 정하는 범위안에서 하되, 균등한 기회가 보장되어야 한다.
②선거에 관한 경비는 법률이 정하는 경우를 제외하고는 정당 또는 후보자에게 부담시킬 수 없다. (제116조)
Electoral Bodies
- English
1. There shall be an Election Commission which shall be responsible for the preparation, maintenance, and periodical updating of electoral rolls, the election schedule, and the supervision, direction, control, and conduct of elections to Parliament and Local Governments, as well as holding of National Referendums, in a free and fair manner.
… (Art. 24) - Dzongkha
༡) བཙག་འཐུ་ལྷན་ཚོགས་ཅིག་ཡོད་དགོ་མི་དེ་ནང་ སྤྱི་ཚོགས་དང་ས་གནས་ཀྱི་གཞུང་ཚུ་ནང་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་འོས་འདེམས་ ཚུ་གི་བཙག་འཐུའི་ སྐབས་ རང་མོས་དང་རྣམ་དག་གི་སྒོ་ལས་འགོ་འདྲེན་འཐབ་ནི་ལུ་ བཙག་འཐུ་དང་འབྲེལ་བའི་བཅའ་སྒྲིག་ ཐོ་ཡིག་རྒྱུན་སྐྱོང་དང་ དུས་ མཚམས་དང་བསྟུན་པའི་ཁ་གསོ་ བཙག་འཐུའི་ལས་འཆར་དང་ བལྟ་སྐྱོང་ བཀོད་ཁྱབ་ དམ་འཛིན་འབད་ནི་ཚུ་གི་ ཁག་འགན་ཡོད།
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Electoral Bodies
- English…
6. Supervision of voters’ registration and electoral acts shall be incumbent upon an independent organ, the competences, composition, organization and functioning of which shall be established by law. (Sec. 65) - Tetum…
6. Órgaun independente maka sei tau matan ba resenseamentu no eleisaun sira. Lei maka estabelese orgaun ne'e nia kompeténsia, kompozisaun, organizasaun no nia knaar. (Art. 65) - Portuguese…
6. A supervisão do recenseamento e dos actos eleitorais cabe a um órgão independente, cujas competências, composição, organização e funcionamento são fixados por lei. (Art. 65)
Electoral Bodies
- English1. The Electoral Commission shall have general responsibility for, and shall supervise, the registration of electors for the election of members of the Maneaba ni Maungatabu and the conduct of elections of such members and of referenda under this Constitution, and the Commission shall have such other functions relating to such registration, elections and referenda as may be prescribed.
2. The Commission shall have responsibility for the conduct of elections to the office of Beretitenti under the supervision of the Chief Justice.
… (Sec. 63)
Electoral Bodies
- EnglishA National Authority of Elections [Autorité Nationale des Elections], abbreviated A.N.E.[,] is instituted. (Art. 143)
- FrenchIl est institué une Autorité Nationale des Elections, en abrégé A.N.E. (Art. 143)
Electoral Bodies
- English1. There shall be a Chief Electoral Officer whose office shall be an office in the public service.
2. The functions of the Chief Electoral Officer shall be—
a. to register as electors the citizens of Lesotho who qualify to be registered as such;
b. to compile a general register of electors and constituency registers of electors for the several constituencies and to maintain such register or registers up to date;
c. to conduct elections of members of the National Assembly; and
d. to perform such other functions as may be conferred on him by or under any other law.
… (Sec. 68)
Electoral Bodies
- English(1) The following state institutions strengthen constitutional democracy in the Republic:
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(f) The Electoral Commission.
… (Sec. 181)
Electoral Bodies
- EnglishAn autonomous organ [organismo] with its own [propios] juridical personality and patrimony, denominated [the] Electoral Service [Servicio Electoral], will exercise the administration, supervision [supervigilancia] and fiscal control of the electoral and plebiscitary processes; of the fulfillment of the norms concerning transparency, limit and control of the electoral expenditure; of the norms concerning the political parties, and [of] the other functions that an organic constitutional law specifies.
... (Art. 94bis) - SpanishUn organismo autónomo, con personalidad jurídica y patrimonio propios, denominado Servicio Electoral, ejercerá la administración, supervigilancia y fiscalización de los procesos electorales y plebiscitarios; del cumplimiento de las normas sobre transparencia, límite y control del gasto electoral; de las normas sobre los partidos políticos, y las demás funciones que señale una ley orgánica constitucional.
... (Art. 94bis)
Electoral Bodies
- EnglishElections shall be independently supervised by the Election Commission in accordance with the provisions of article 162. (Art. 62)
Electoral Bodies
- English(1) There shall be a Supervisor of Elections whose duty it shall be to exercise general supervision over the registration of voters in elections of Representatives and over the conduct of such elections.
… (Sec. 34)