Croatia

Act on Election of Representatives to the Croatian Parliament (2003, last amended 2011)

Updated: June 2015

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Article 23 states:

The freedom of voters to take sides and to secret vote shall be guaranteed.

 

Article 4 states:

The representatives in Parliament are being elected on the basis of direct universal and equal suffrage by all the Croatian citizens with full 18 years of age… Voters who are members of national minorities which account for less than 1.5% of the population of the Republic of Croatia shall, besides universal adult suffrage, be entitled to special voting rights in the election of members to Parliament.

 

Excerpts from the Act on Election of Representatives to the Croatian Parliament (2003, last amended 2011)

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Article 71 states:

A voter who due to some physical handicap or illiteracy cannot vote independently, may come to the polling station with another person who is literate and who shall by his/her authorisation and according to his/her instruction encircle the ordinal number in front of the list name, or the name of the candidate for who the voter is casting his/her vote. A voter who is not able to come to the polling station, shall inform the Electors Committee of that fact. The president of the Committee shall determine at least two members of the electors committee or deputies, who will visit the voter and enable voting for him, taking into account the secrecy of the voting procedure. The president of the Electors Committee is obliged to register to the Electors Committee work minutes particular events like voting of voters with a physical handicap, illiterate voters, and voting outside the polling station by previous notice of voters.

 

Excerpt from the Act on Election of Representatives to the Croatian Parliament (2003, last amended 2011)

 


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Article 71 states:

A voter who due to some physical handicap or illiteracy cannot vote independently, may come to the polling station with another person who is literate and who shall by his/her authorisation and according to his/her instruction encircle the ordinal number in front of the list name, or the name of the candidate for who the voter is casting his/her vote. A voter who is not able to come to the polling station, shall inform the Electors Committee of that fact. The president of the Committee shall determine at least two members of the electors committee or deputies, who will visit the voter and enable voting for him, taking into account the secrecy of the voting procedure. The president of the Electors Committee is obliged to register to the Electors Committee work minutes particular events like voting of voters with a physical handicap, illiterate voters, and voting outside the polling station by previous notice of voters.

 

Excerpt from the Act on Election of Representatives to the Croatian Parliament (2003, last amended 2011)