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Pasivno biračko pravo (poslanička sposobnost)
Passive Voting Right (Deputies’ Capacity)

Author(s): Marijana Pajvančić
Subject(s): Constitutional Law, Electoral systems
Published by: Institut za uporedno pravo
Keywords: voting right; candidates nomination right; parliamentary incompability; free mandate of the deputies
Summary/Abstract: The Paper is focused to the passive voting right, i.e. Deputies’ capacity, as it is also called. The author discusses the contents and nature of passive voting right, as one of the the general citizens’ right to participate in the performance of public affairs and citizens’ right to the equal availability to public functions including the right of the citizens to retain and enjoy their office, under the same conditions as the other candidates, without any form of discrimination and the right of passive voting right protection. The subject of the analysis are also the objects of the passive voting right and the conditions for that right achievement, and parliamentary incompatibility.

  • Page Range: 11-25
  • Page Count: 15
  • Publication Year: 2012
  • Language: Serbian