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Amendment To The Parliamentary Elections Act

Original Language Title: Grozījumi Saeimas vēlēšanu likumā

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The Saeima has adopted and the President issued the following law: parliamentary election law amendments to make the parliamentary election Act (Republic of Latvia Saeima and the Cabinet of Ministers rapporteur, 1995, nr. 13; 1998, nr. 9, 13; 2002, 12, 13 no, no 19; 2003; 2006, nr. 8, 10, 13; 2007. no; 2009, no. 8; Latvian journal, 2010 62 no; 46. in 2011, no.) the amendments are as follows: 1. Article 45: to supplement the first sentence with the following: "If the elections are held the constitutional article 48 for the case, a voter may apply to vote by post a week after the promulgation of the election day, but no later than two weeks before election day."
supplemented with the sentence of the fourth subparagraph by the following: "If parliamentary elections take place in the constitutional article 48 for the case, voters can change the electoral materials receipt address not later than two weeks before election day, the application shall be submitted to the relevant Latvian diplomatic or consular authority.";
Add to sixth with the sentence the following wording: "If parliamentary elections take place in the constitutional article 48 for the case, the District Commission not later than 10 days before the election day voters send to the address indicated in the application all Riga electoral district a list of candidates applied for the ballot, with the precinct Election Commission seal stamped envelope and the registration page with information about the order in which the vote is to be made, including the order number with any voter registered in the list vote by mail. "
2. Article 53: Supplement to the second part of the article as follows: "(2) If parliamentary elections take place in the constitutional article 48 for the case, the Central Election Commission begins election preparations the previous parliamentary election for funding granted. ';
believe the current text of article about the first part.
3. Add to article 55 of the law with the following: "article 55. The Parliament elected the constitutional case provided for in article 13, shall meet on the first meeting of the Central Election Commission within the day. "
The law shall enter into force on the day following its promulgation.
The Parliament adopted the law of 14 July 2011.
The President a. Smith 2011 in Riga on July 22.