TITLE IV. OF ELECTIONS
Article 86
The right to vote is guaranteed.
Article 87
Elections are free, transparent and regular. The electoral code determines their practical modalities.
Article 88
The elections are organized in an impartial manner at the national, municipality, and commune levels, as well as the other levels of government fixed by the law.
Article 89
A national and independent electoral commission guarantees the liberty, impartiality and independence of the electoral process.
Article 90
The commission is composed of five independent individuals. Its members are nominated by decree after having been preliminarily approved separately by the National Assembly and the Senate by a three-fourths majority.
Article 91
The Commission is charged with the following missions:
- Organizing the elections at the national, municipal, and communal levels;
- Ensuring that the elections are free, regular and transparent;
- Proclaiming the provisory results of the elections within a time period defined by the law;
- Promulgating the arrangements, the code of conduct and the technical details, including the physical location of voting boxes and their hours of service;
- Hearing the complaints concerning the respect and enforcement of electoral rules. The decisions of the Commission are not appealable.
- Ensuring, in applying the appropriate rules, that the electoral campaigns do not instigate ethnic violence or any type of violence contrary to the present Constitution;
- Assuring the respect of the dispositions of the present Constitution regarding ethnicity and gender, and recognizing related complaints or disputes.
