ARTICLE 1.

This law shall regulate the election and recall of representatives in the assembly of the Socialist Republic of Macedonian and assemblymen in assemblies of local communities and the city community (hereinafter: representative on an assembly).

Provisions of this law which relate to the election and recall of representatives in the Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Macedonian shall accordingly be applied in the election and recall of assemblymen in the assembly of the city community.

ARTICLE 2.

Citizens shall directly and secretly vote in order to elect representatives in the Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Macedonian, and assemblymen in assemblies for a representative in an assembly.

ARTICLE 3.

Freedom and secrecy of voting shall be guaranteed.

No one can hold a citizen responsible because of voting, and demand from him to reveal how he voted or why he did not vote.

ARTICLE 4.

The function of a representative or an assemblymen is incompatible with functions in republican government of city government agencies determined by law.

ARTICLE 5.

A representative of an assembly can only be recalled by the electoral body or district which elected him.

ARTICLE 6.

Elections for representatives in assemblies shall be scheduled every four years by the president of the assembly.

The announcement of date of elections shall be published in the appropriate official gazette.

The date of elections shall be announced with the decision on scheduling elections. No more than two months and no less than one month can pass from the day of scheduling elections to the day of holding elections.

Elections have to be held at the latest within 15 days from the date of expiration of the term of office of an assembly, and the statute of limitations shall begin with the verification of election of representatives in an assembly.

ARTICLE 7.

Bodies for administration of the election and recall of representatives in assemblies shall be: vote counting committee and polling boards (hereinafter: election bodies)

Only those people who enjoy the right to vote may be members of election bodies or deputy members.

Members of election bodies and their deputies cannot be candidates for representatives. If a member of an election body or his deputy accepts the candidacy for a representative his function in the election body shall cease.

ARTICLE 8.

Representatives of candidates who monitor the work of polling boards may attend the work of polling boards.

Representatives of candidates may warn the chairman of the polling board about inconsistency in work, and if the latter refuses to accept the warning he is supposed to record it in the minutes.

ARTICLE 9.

The following vote counting committees shall exist:

1) local community vote counting committee;

2) local counting committees of electoral districts for the election of representatives in the assembly of the SR Macedonian (hereinafter: vote counting committees and electoral districts); and

3) republican vote counting committee.

ARTICLE 10.

A local community counting committee and an electoral district vote committee shall have standing membership consisting of a chairman, secretary and three members, appointed for a term of office of four years.

The chairman, secretary and members of a vote counting committee eacg have deputies.

Additionally, vote counting committees shall include one representative and his deputy from all forms of political organizations and activity of citizens who registered candidates for representatives, and from independent candidates as well.

They will represent the changeable membership of a vote counting committee.

Eight days after completion of candidacy procedures, the chairman of a vote counting committee shall convene a session.

Authorized representatives of political organizations and citizens who registered their candidates for representatives and independent candidates shall exercise their right cited in paragraph 4 of this article and appoint their representative with a deputy who will enter the changeable membership of a vote counting committee.

After determining the existence of rights cited in paragraph 4 of this article, the standing membership of a vote counting committee shall determine and announce by full name the changeable membership of a vote counting committee.

ARTICLE 11.

The local community vote counting committee shall be appointed by the assembly of a local community.

The republican vote counting committee and vote counting committees of electoral districts shall be appointed by the assembly of the Socialist Republic of Macedonian.

When there are no more than two electoral districts Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Macedonian may authorize the local community vote counting committee to perform the function of the electoral district vote counting committee.

ARTICLE 12.

Chairmen of local community vote counting committees, chairmen of electoral district vote counting committees and their deputies shall be required to have a degree in law and work experience as judges.

Chairman of the Republican vote counting committee and his deputy shall be appointed from the Supreme Court of Macedonia.

Membership and changes in membership of vote counting committees shall be published in the official gazette.

ARTICLE 13.

A local community vote counting committee shall be responsible for the following:

1) to ensure that administration of election and recall of assemblymen is carried out in a legal way;

2) to determine whether proposed and determined candidates for election of assemblymen were proposed and determined in conformity with law;

3) to create a joint list of candidates for each electoral district and to publish it;

4) to determine polling places;

5) to appoint polling boards;

6) to determine and make public voting results on election and recall of assemblymen in assemblies of local communities, and to issue announcements on voting results;

7) to fill out and deliver the statistics to the republican organization responsible for statistical affairs;

8) to carry out technical preparation for elections;

9) to carry out other matters determined by this law.

ARTICLE 14.

The vote counting committee of an electoral district shall be responsible for the following:

1) to ensure legal administration of elections and recall of representatives in the Assembly of the SR Macedonia elected in a particular electoral district;

2) to determine whether proposed and confirmed candidates for election of representatives to the Assembly of the SR Macedonia were proposed and confirmed in conformity with law;

3) to propose a joint list of candidates and make it public;

4) to determine polling places;

5) to appoint polling boards;

6) to determine voting results for election and recall of representatives in a particular electoral district;

7) to fill out and submit the statistics to the republican statistical office;

8) to carry out technical preparation for elections;

9) to carry out other affairs determined by this law.

ARTICLE 15.

The standing membership of the republican vote counting committee shall be responsible for the following:

1) to administer preparation of elections and recall of representatives until the changeable (full) membership of the republican vote counting committee is determined;

2) to issue instructions to vote counting committees on question of administration of elections and recall of representatives;

3) to prescribe necessary forms for administration of elections and recall of representatives.

4) to determine joint standards for election material and other concrete conditions for the administration of elections and to ensure the implementation of these standards and conditions:

5) to issue explanations on implementation of provisions cited in this law and in the administration of elections;

6) to regulate handling and staring of election material;

7) to perform other affairs determined by this law.

The changeable membership of the republican vote counting committee shall be responsible for following:

1) to ensure the legal administration of elections and recall of representatives;

2) to supervise the work of vote counting committees and electoral districts;

3) to publish voting results in the Official Gazette of SR Macedonia on election and recall of representatives for the SR Macedonia Assembly;

4) to submit a report to the assembly of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia on completed elections and voting on recall of representatives in the assembly of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia;

5) to perform other affairs regulated by this law.

ARTICLE 16.

Polling boards shall directly manage the voting activity in elections and the recall of representatives, ensure regularity and secrecy of voting and determine voting results of a polling place.

A polling board shall be appointed for each polling place at the latest three days before the day determined for holding elections, or voting on recall of representatives.

A polling board shall consist of chairman, two members and their deputies.

A polling board shall operate as a whole with all members present.

ARTICLE 17.

Governmental agencies are to provide technical and other conditions needed in polling places and to submit information needed for their work.

Organizations and communities are to offer assistance to vote counting committees and polling boards and to furnish them with information needed for their work.

ARTICLE 18.

Electoral districts for election of representatives in assemblies shall be formed in a way which ensures that approximately the same number of voters elects one representative and that one representative is elected in each electoral district.

ARTICLE 19.

Electoral districts for election of assemblymen shall be determined by local communities with decision of their assemblies, while the electoral districts for election of representatives in the Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia shall be determined by law.

ARTICLE 20.

Proposing and confirming candidates for representative in assemblies shall be proposed and confirmed by citizens, political organizations and other forms of organization and association.

Registered political parties which have at least one thousand five hundred members (1,500) shall enjoy the right to propose and confirm candidates for representatives in the assembly of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia. For that purpose political parties shall submit a list of candidates for representative in the Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia in each electoral district. Registered forms of political organization and activity of citizens with at least five hundred (500) members shall enjoy the right to propose and confirm candidates for assemblymen in assemblies of local communities, and for that purpose they shall submit a list of candidates in each electoral district for assemblymen in assemblies of local communities.

Registered political organizations which do not have the necessary number of members cited in paragraph 3 of this article, as well as citizens, shall propose candidates for representative in the assembly of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia by collecting at least one hundred (100) signatures, while for candidates for assemblymen in assemblies of local community the required number of signatures shall be at least fifty (50).

If there are less than five hundred (500) voters in an electoral district those persons who correctly collected signatures of at least 50 of all voters in that electoral district shall be considered as candidates.

Based on collected signatures of citizens, political organizations and other forms of organization and association shall prove the size of their membership with a copy of signed application forms of their members or a certificate of an agency where a party is registered. Together with a list of proposed and confirmed candidates this evidence shall be submitted to the authorized vote counting committee.

ARTICLE 21.

The list of candidates shall contain: name of assembly for which the election is performed; name of electoral district for administration of elections; full name and address of each candidate and the date when the list was filled.

The name of the list shall be determined according of the name of political organization and other form of organization and association which submits the list.

The name of the list submitted by citizens shall be: list of independent candidates.

ARTICLE 22.

Procedure and rules for proposing and confirming candidates for representative in assemblies, shall be determined by political organizations and other forms of organization and association with their own enactements, while the rules for proposing and confirming candidates by citizens shall be determined by the republican vote counting committee.

ARTICLE 23.

Political organizations and other forms of organization and association of citizens from paragraph 4 of article 20 of this law shall collect signatures in an application form prescribed by the republican vote counting committee. This application form shall include the following information: full name and address and identity card number of the proposed candidate and of every signed proposer.

ARTICLE 24.

A citizen can be proposed and confirmed as candidate for a representative in an assembly only in one electoral district.

Signed proposers of candidates for representatives in assemblies must enjoy the right to vote and elect and have a place of residence on the territory of an electoral district for whose representative a candidate is proposed.

A citizen enlisted in the register of citizens with the right to vote on the territory of an electoral district can give his support, by signing the form, to only one candidate in that electoral district.

Signatures for proposing and confirming candidates for representatives of citizens shall be submitted on a form to an authorized agency which maintains the register of citizens with the right to vote in a particular electoral district.

ARTICLE 25.

The list of candidates shall have an attached statement of candidates that they accept the candidacy, as well as an attached form cited in article 23 of this law.

ARTICLE 26.

As soon as it receives lists of candidates, the vote counting committee shall determine whether they were submitted within the fixed time limit and whether they were composed in conformity with this law.

If an authorized vote counting committee establishes irregularities in lists of candidates that certain requirements were omitted in lists of candidates, it will invite submitters to correct this immediately or at the latest within three days form the day irregularities were found.

If an authorized vote counting committee finds that lists of candidates were not submitted promptly, and if a submitted failed to correct irregularities or omitted elements cited in paragraph 2 of this article, the list of candidates will not be confirmed.

ARTICLE 27.

An authorized vote counting committee shall create the joint lists of candidates of an electoral districts at the latest within five days from the date the deadline from paragraph 1 of article 25 expires, and this list shall include all candidates for representatives in an assembly who were properly proposed and confirmed as candidates.

ARTICLE 28.

Candidates for representatives in assemblies shall be entered in the joint list of candidates of an electoral district according to their membership in political organizations and other forms of organization and association.

If a candidate was confirmed in the basis of a proposal of citizens, the words “independent candidate” shall be placed beside his name.

The sequence order of political parties and other forms of organization and association shall be determined by drawing lots.

ARTICLE 29.

A candidate withdraw his candidacy at the latest 15 days before elections are held.

A candidate may withdraw by informing the vote counting committee in writting.

ARTICLE 30.

If because a candidate withdrew his candidacy the number of candidates for representative is less than the number that should be elected in an electoral unit, then the procedure for proposing and confirming candidates shall be repeated in that electoral district.

In case the situation cited in paragraph 1 of this article takes place, authorized voter counting committee shall determine an additional deadline for proposing and confirming candidates on the basis of provisions cited in this law, except that this deadline expires at three days before scheduled elections are held.

If the repeated procedure from paragraph 1 of article does not enable elections to be carried out additional elections shall be scheduled in an electoral district.

ARTICLE 31.

As soon as it prepares the joint list of candidates, and at the latest five days before scheduled elections are held, the vote counting committee shall announce the joint list.

The joint list shall be announced through advertisement in inhabited places and an appropriate official gazette.

Announcing of the joint list of assemblymen shall also be performed in the local newspaper, and for representatives of the republican assembly in other main newspaper as well.

ARTICLE 32.

Candidates for representative in assemblies shall have the right to a presentation in a discussion of candidates with citizens in special meetings in organizations and communities, with the participation of candidates in public discussion, in the media and in other appropriate way.

Registered political organizations and other forms of organization and association may organize a preelection campaign for their candidates. A citizen who collects signatures in order to propose an independent candidate may also organize a preelection campaign.

Presentation of candidates and the preelection campaign shall be performed in the way determined by statute or other general enactment of political organizations and other forms of organization and associations.

In the preelection campaign political organizations and other forms of organization and association are supposed to observe the mutually determined rules (the code) in order to protect the dignity, reputation and integrity of a candidate. These rules must also be observed by the citizens pursuant to paragraph 3 of this article.

ARTICLE 33.

Presentation of candidates and preelection campaign cannot be performed 48 hours before the date of scheduled elections.

ARTICLE 34.

Voting for the election of representatives shall be performed in polling places.

Each polling place shall have an ordinal number.

At least five days before the date of scheduled elections, a local community vote counting committee, or a vote counting committee of an electoral district shall announce which polling places were determined and specify in which polling places citizens from a particular region shall vote.

ARTICLE 35.

Polling places shall be determined depending on the number of voters and distance between a polling place and inhabited areas, ensuring that the number of voters permits voting to take place promptly and without difficulty.

Special premises shall be determined for each polling place.

Premises determined for voting shall be equipped with cabins, curtains or screens so that it cannot be seen how the voter completed the voting paper.

ARTICLE 36.

A local community vote counting committee or a vote counting committee of an electoral district is supposed to promptly prepare and distribute election material to the polling places. Election material shall include: the required number of ballot boxes, voting papers, certified voting roll for each polling place, a form for minutes on the working of the polling board and other material needed to administer voting.

Together with a certified voting roll the vote counting committee shall also attach an officially certified list of voters from a particular polling place who are temporarily working in a foreign country and those who are serving in the army.

A polling board shall be given as many voting papers as there are voters in a particular polling place, and the number of voting papers shall be equal to the number of voters cited on the voting roll including the attached list cited in paragraph 2 of this article.

Exceptionally from paragraph 3 of this article, a polling board shall also receive a sealed envelope with a certain number of voting papers, the number of which shall be written on the envelope. These voting papers shall only be used if a citizen approaches the voting and was excluded from the voting recorded in the minutes.

ARTICLE 37.

Voting shall be carried out personally.

Voting shall be carried out with voting papers.

ARTICLE 38.

A voting paper shall contain:

1) name of assembly for which elections are held;

2) name of electoral district in which elections are administered;

3) specified number of representatives that are elected in polling places;

4) full names of candidates; and

5) name of political organization or other form of organization and association which initiated the procedure for proposing a candidate, or a note that there is an independent candidate in accordance with paragraph 2 of article 28 of this law.

Names of candidates shall be listed on a voting paper in the same order in which they were listed in a joint list of candidates of an electoral district.

An ordinal number shall be placed before the name of each candidate.

ARTICLE 39.

A voting paper for voting on recalling a representative shall contain his full name.

The words in favor of recall and against recall shall be placed in front of the name of a representative.

ARTICLE 40.

Voters can only vote on candidates mentioned by name on the voting paper and they can select at the most the number of candidates that equals the number of representatives that will be elected.

A voting paper is filled out by circling the ordinal number in front of the candidate for whom a voter is voting.

On recalling a candidate a voter votes by circling either the words “for recall” or “against recall”.

ARTICLE 41.

Voting papers on which the ordinal numbers of more candidates than the number that should be elected are circled, voting papers with new names entered and circled, incompletely filled out voting papers, and voting papers completed illegibly so that it cannot be distinguished with certainty who the elected candidates are, shall be considered as invalid voting papers.

ARTICLE 42.

Voting shall take place without interruption from 7:00 A.M. through 19:00 P.M. At 19:00 hours polling places shall be closed, but the voters who happened to be on the polling place at that time shall be allowed to vote.

Polling places in which all voters from a certified voting list voted can be closed before the expiration of the deadline cited in paragraph 1 of this article.

ARTICLE 43.

All members of the polling board or their deputies must attend the entire course of voting.

Polling boards shall be responsible for ensuring order and peace in polling places.

A polling board is authorized to remove persons who make disorder and disturbance.

If necessary a polling board may call police officers for assistance.

No one can come to the polling place armed with weapons or dangerous tools, except for police officers cited in paragraph 4 of this article.

ARTICLE 44.

A polling board shall check whether a voter who came to vote is entered in a certified voting roll. If a voter is not entered, the polling board will not allow him to vote unless he proves with a certificate of an authorized governmental agency or an identity card that he has the right to vote. The polling board shall register every such case in the minutes.

ARTICLE 45.

A voter who cannot vote in the way prescribed by this law because of a physical defect or illiteracy is entitled to bring a person, with his consent, to help him with the voting.

The polling board will register every such case in the minutes.

ARTICLE 46.

Those citizens who are not in their place of residence on the voting day because of military exercise shall be enabled to vote for their representatives in a military unit or military institution.

Citizens temporarily employed in a foreign country shall vote in polling places on the territory of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia where they lived before departure to a foreign country, or they may vote in diplomatic and consular mission of the Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia.

ARTICLE 47.

The local community agency for national defense shall prepare a list of citizens on military service or military expertize, while the local community secretariat for internal affairs shall prepare the list of persons temporarily employed in foreign countries. These lists shall be submitted to authorized vote counting committees.

An authorized vote counting committee is supposed to immediately submit the necessary number of incomplete voting papers and sealed enveloped addressed to the vote counting commission to military units and institutions or diplomatic consular mission of the SFRY in countries where citizens from paragraphs 1 and 2 of article 46 are located.

ARTICLE 48.

A citizen from paragraphs 1 and 2 of article 46 of this law who votes shall then place the completed voting paper in an envelope and submit the closed envelope to his military unit at institution or diplomatic consular mission which will deliver it by mail to the authorized vote counting committee.

As soon as voting from paragraph 1 of this article is completed all envelopes with voting papers must be delivered to the vote counting committee.

Voting by citizens from paragraph 1 and 2 of article 46 of this law should be completed promptly so that completed voting papers can reach the vote counting committee before the deadline for vote counting and result finding.

ARTICLE 49.

All types of campaigning are banned on the election day or recall day.

A building in which voting takes place and the area in its direct neighborhood shall be considered as a voting place.

ARTICLE 50.

As soon as voting is finished polling boards shall immediately start counting votes.

Determination of election results begins when the polling board counts unused voting papers and puts them in a special envelope and seals it. After that, based a voting list, the polling board starts opening ballot boxes and counting votes.

When the voters are counted the polling board determines how many votes each candidate received and how many voting papers are invalid.

If the counting reveals that less voters voted than the number of voting papers in the ballot box the polling board shall be dismissed and voting in that polling place shall be repeated.

ARTICLE 51.

When the polling board counts the votes it shall enter the following information in the minutes: number of voters according to the voting list, number of voters that voted, number of votes that each candidate received and how many voting papers were proclaimed invalid.

The minutes on the work of the polling board shall also include other circumstances and facts which are of significance for the voting.

Each member of the polling board may give remarks and opinions which shall also be entered in the minutes.

Representatives of certain candidates may also give remarks and opinions if they attended the work of the polling board which shall also be entered in the minutes.

Minutes shall be signed by all members of the polling board.

ARTICLE 52.

The polling board shall submit the minutes and other election material to an authorized vote counting committee within 18 hours from the time of closing of polling places.

ARTICLE 53.

Based on voting results from all polling places, authorized vote counting committees shall determine election results for representatives in an electoral district.

Authorized vote counting committee shall also take into consideration the voting papers cited in paragraph 3 of article 48 of this law before it determines the final election result.

ARTICLE 54.

A candidate shall be elected for a representative if hi received the majority of votes from voters that voted in an electoral district, on condition that the number of votes he received is not smaller than one third of the total number of voters according to the voting list.

If none of the candidates received the necessary number of votes cited in paragraph 1 of this article, or if that number of votes was received by a smaller number of candidates than the number that should be elected for representatives, voting in a particular electoral district shall be repeated 14 days after the day when first voting took place.

Only those candidates who received at least 7% of votes from voters who voted can enter the second voting round and repeated voting.

If none of the candidates received the necessary majority from paragraph 3 of this article the entire election procedure of an electoral district shall be repeated.

In the repeated voting, a candidate who received the highest number of votes from the voters who voted shall be elected for representative. If in the repeated voting two or more candidates received the same number of votes the selection between them shall be made by drawing lots.

ARTICLE 55.

If a vote counting committee confirms that there were irregularities on polling places which could have influenced the election results, voting shall be canceled in some or all polling places and repeated elections shall be scheduled for canceled elections.

ARTICLE 56.

A vote counting committee shall keep the minutes with the following official information included: number of voters enlisted on the voting papers, full name of each candidate with a specification of the number of invalid voting papers, full name of each candidate with a specification of the number of received votes, and full name of elected candidate.

Each member of a vote counting committee may give remarks which shall be entered in the minutes.

Minutes shall be signed by all members of a vote counting committee.

ARTICLE 57.

After confirming election results, a vote counting committee of an republican vote counting committee which shall make public election results for representatives in the assembly of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia and submit a report to the assembly.

Election results in assemblies of local communities shall be made public by the local community vote counting committee which is to submit a report to its assembly about the conduct of elections and election results.

ARTICLE 59.

A term of office of a representative shall cease prematurely in the following cases:

1) if a representative is recalled;

2) if a representative resigns;

3) if a representative is convicted with a non-suspended sentence to six months of imprisonment and the court sentence went into effect;

4) in case of incompatibility with the function of a representative occurs;

5) in case of death;

6) if a representative is deprived of legal capacity on the basis of a court sentence that went into effect.

A term of office of a representative shall cease with the occurrence of cases from points 3,4,5 and 6 from paragraph 1 of this article. In the first next session after the occurrence of an appropriate case assembly shall confirm cessation of term of office.

In the first next session after submission of resignation assembly shall confirm that a term of office ceased for a representative effectively with the day that session was held.

In case of recall, term of office of a representative shall cease when a decision to recall him was made.

ARTICLE 60.

Repeated elections shall be carried out in the following cases:

1) if an authorized vote counting committee cancels the voting because of irregularities in the administration of elections;

2) in cases envisaged in paragraph 4 of article 54 of this article.

Repeated elections shall also be carried out if assembly cancels the procedure of verification of a term of office because of irregularities in the administration of election.

ARTICLE 61.

In the repeated elections, carried out because of circumstances cited in paragraph 1, point 1, of article 60 of this law, voting shall take place according to the existing list of candidates. In the repeated elections, carried out because of circumstances cited in paragraph 1, point 2 of article 60 of this law, voting shall take place according to the new list of candidates created in the way envisaged by this law.

The new list of candidates for repeated elections shall be submitted at the latest 10 days before the day of scheduled repeated elections.

ARTICLE 62.

Repeated elections in cases cited in paragraph 1 and 2 of article 60 of this law shall be scheduled by an authorized vote counting committee, while the repeated elections from paragraph 2 of article 60 shall be scheduled by an assembly.

The decision on scheduling elections shall also set the date for these elections.

ARTICLE 63.

Additional elections shall be carried out when a term of office ended for a representative prematurely, and in the case cited in paragraph 3 of article 30 of this law.

ARTICLE 64.

Additional elections cannot be scheduled six months before the expiration of the term of office of the assembly.

ARTICLE 65.

Unless the provisions cited in articles 60 through 61 envisage otherwise, provisions of this law on regular election shall apply on repeated and additional election as well.

ARTICLE 66.

Provisions of this law which relate to the procedure for proposing and confirming candidates for representatives in assemblies shall also appropriately be applied on the procedure for proposing a recall of representatives, except that in order to initiate the procedure for recall it is necessary to collect large times as many signatures of citizens that the number mentioned in article 20 of this law.

A proposal must contain the full name of a representative whose recall is proposed, name of assembly where the representative is a member, and reasons because of which recall is proposed.

ARTICLE 67.

Provisions of this law which concern elections shall also be appropriately applied on scheduling the voting on recall, minutes of the vote counting committee, polling boards and submission of reports on voting results.

ARTICLE 68.

Voting results on recall shall be valid if more that one half of the total number of voters from on electoral district voted. A representative shall be recalled if more than one half of the voters who voted in favor of recall.

ARTICLE 69.

Financial resources for administration of elections and recall of representatives in assemblies shall be provided in the republican budget, that is to say in the local community budget. These financial resources shall be made available to the local community vote counting committee, that is to say the republican vote counting committee.

From the total amount disposable for administration of elections, two thirds shall serve for coverage of costs related to election activities of bodies for administration of elections.

One third of the financial resources for administration of elections shall serve for coverage of a part of the costs created by political organizations and other forms of political organization and association whose candidates were elected for representatives, and by the elected representative who was elected as an independent candidate.

Financial resources shall be distributed among representatives on the basis of the number of received votes by each elected representative.

ARTICLE 70.

Based on irregularities in the procedure of candidacy, procedure of collecting signatures or the procedure for election and recall, each candidate and each voter is entitled to submit a complaint to an authorized vote counting committee.

A complaint on irregularities in the procedure of candidacy, in the procedure of collecting signatures, and a complaint on the list of candidates of an electoral district shall be submitted within 48 hours from the day when the list of candidates was made public.

A complaint on irregularity in the procedure for election and recall shall be submitted within three days from the day of completion of voting on election, or recall.

An authorized vote counting committee must officially decide on a complaint within three days from the day a complaint was submitted.

ARTICLE 71.

If an authorized vote counting committee establishes that irregularities in the procedure of candidacy, procedure for election and recall had significant influence or could have had significant influence on the results of election and recall, it shall cancel the effects of previous procedure and decide to repeat voting within a certain period of time. If these irregularities were established in the procedure for election and recall the committee shall cancel the election or recall and new voting shall be scheduled in a polling place where the voting on election or recall was canceled.

ARTICLE 72.

A complainant is entitled to file an appeal to the decision of the vote counting committee.

An appeal against the decision of a local cammunety vote counting committee shall be filed with an authorized regular district court, while an appeal against the decision of a vote counting committee of an electoral district or the republican vote counting committee shall be submitted to the Supreme Court of Macedonian within 48 hours from the day the original decision was received.

The authorized court shall decide on appeals within 48 hours from the day it receives them.

ARTICLE 73.

Registered political organizations and other forms of organization and association shall be fined 2,000 to 25,000 dinars for an offense if they organize presentation of candidates and preelection campaign in violation of the contrary to provisions cited in article 32 and 33 of this law.

A responsible person in a political organization or other form of organization and assoceation shall be fined 1,000 to 2,500 dinars for an offense cited in paragraph 1 of this article.

ARTICLE 74.

A physical person shall be fined 500 to 2,500 dinars or with imprisonment up to 30 days for offence:

1) if a physical person holds a citizen responsible or demands from the citizen to reveal for whom he voted and why he voted (article 3, paragraph 2);

2) if a physical person participated in presentation and preelect campaign 48 hours before the date of scheduled elections (article 33);

3) if a physical person caused disorder and disturbance in a polling place and refuses to leave the polling place when so requested by the polling board (article 43, paragraph 3);

4) if a physical person campaigns in a polling place.

ARTICLE 75.

When this law enters into force the law on election of members of delegations and delegates in assemblies of social-political communities and self management communities of interest (“Official Gazette of the Socialist Republic of Macedania” 48/89 shall cease to be in effect.

ARTICLE 76.