Act XX of 1949

THE CONSTITUTION OF THE REPUBLIC OF HUNGARY

(abstract issue)

Chapter I

General provisions

2. § (2) In the Republic of Hungary all power is vested in the people; who exercise popular sovereignty through their elected representatives and directly.

Chapter III

The President of the Republic

30/A. § (1) The President of the Republic shall

d) call for the general parliamentary elections, local elections and European Parliamentary elections as well as national referendums,

Chapter XII

Basic rights and obligations

70. § (4) Any Hungarian citizen of legal age having domicile in the territory of the Republic of Hungary, and any citizen of legal age of any other Member State of the European Union having domicile in the territory of the Republic of Hungary shall have the right to be elected and the right to vote in the European Parliamentary elections.

(5) The right to vote shall not be granted to persons who under the force of an absolute verdict are under guardianship limiting or excluding ability to act, are barred from exercising public affairs by judgment of law, serve their final sentence of imprisonment, spend their sentence in therapy at an institution as ruled in a criminal procedure. Furthermore, citizens of legal age of another Member State of the European Union having domicile in the territory of the Republic of Hungary shall not be elected in the event that in their country they have been deprived of exercising this right on the grounds of a rule of law, decision of the court or other authority of the State of their citizenship.

Chapter XIII

Basic principles of the elections

71. § (1) The Members of Parliament, the Members of the European Parliament, the members of the body of representatives of local governments, as well as mayors and the Mayor of the capital shall be elected by universal and equal suffrage of voters in direct and secret ballot.

(3) The election of the Members of Parliament, the Members of the European Parliament, and members of the body of representatives of local governments and mayors shall be regulated under special laws, the adoption of which requires a majority of two thirds of the votes of the Members of Parliament present.