Vyriausiosios rinkimų komisijos teisinės padėties pagrindai ; Legal status of the central election commission

Abstract

SUMMARY Democratic elections - is a very important citizens participation fonn in administration of the statė, Aš well aš a crucial factor in the formation of the representative institutions. Elections can not be democratic and their results legitimate and lawful, if elections are conducted without considering democratic principais and procedures of elections, which are Consolidated in the Constitution. Legislators have a duty to enshrine a system of elections, determine a procedure of elections, which includes: registration of candidates, agitation, procedure of voting, calculating votes, disputes solving, regulation of other elections relations. Legislators have a duty to act in conformity with Constitution. He can not refute, skew, restrict universal and eąual right to nor provide legal basis for other subjects to act in that way. If ignored, it would negate sovereign power of the State. There iš one permanent supreme statė institution for organizing and conducting elections and referendums provided in the Constitution of the Republic of Lithuania- the Central Electoral Committee. Tasks of the Central Electoral Committee are aš follows: 1) to organize and conduct parliamentary, presidential and municipal elections (hereinafter referred to aš elections") and referendums; and to ensure that elections and referendums would be hold adhering to the principles of democratic elections, enshrined in the Constitution and laws of the Republic of Lithuania; 2) in the manner and forms prescribed by law, to control financing of political, political campaigns. Committees work consolidates its Constitutional purpose, principais of its organization and competence. Harmonization of election laws enables the implementation of all these features. Thus, while analyzing Central Electoral Committee it iš import to point: 1. The Committee iš enshrined in the Constitution; 2. Constitutional Court made a conclusion- that the - Committee iš main and universal in that point of view, that it can not be negated by "specialized" Presidential Electoral Committee, which was founded in 1993 for one purpose- to organize Elections Of the President. When discharging its functions and making decisions on issues within its competence, the Central Electoral Committee iš independent. No institution officer or may issue mandatory instructions regarding the making of the decision that iš within the competence of the Central Electoral Committee.