Remarks to the Local Elections Bill

The author of the article deals with a new bill concerning elections into the board of representatives in the municipalities that has just been passed to the Parliament to discuss. The author points at the changes of the bill in comparison to the regulation from the years of 1990 and 1992. It is also said the the essential basis contemporary legal regulation are kept but, on the other band, the corncrete frames of individual solutions has been changed. It is emphasised that some solutions appear to be in a conflict with the principle of the suffrage equality, e.g. the limitation of the electors in forming the ballot-paper. The author also considers changes in organization of the constituencies, since the extent of the constituencies is reduced to the number of 5 to 1O mandates. There are also changes concerning regulation of the election by the means of a changed position of the Central Election Committee and cancellation of specíal committees (these special committees enabled the ballot to take place during three days before the election day). The author critically appraises the insuificient regulation of the election campaign and especially he arywes against a proposal to change the St.Lague formula with the d'Hondt one. The author shows on a practical example the consequences which such a change would inflict upon the smaller parties and independent candidates. On the other hand, the author positively values precise defining of grounds for termination a mandate of a member of a board of representatives and extending a possibility of a courts control of the elections.