REGULATIONS on Elections of the Constituent Assembly

Chapter 1

General Provisions

1.  The Constituent Assembly shall be elected through universal, equal, direct and secret ballot suffrage irrespective of sex and based on the principle of proportional representation.

2.  One electoral district shall be set up for the election of the Constituent Assembly.

The number of the members of the Constituent assembly shall be 130 people.  The Republic shall be divided in electoral precincts for voting.

Chapter II

The electoral right

3.  The right to voting shall have the citizens of the republic of both sexes who attained the age of 20 at the day of election.  Those, enlisted in the Regular Army shall have only the passive right to vote.

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Chapter III

The administration of the election of the Constituent Assembly

9.  The elections shall be organized by Central, city, district and village electoral commissions.

Note: In Sukhumi and Zakatala Okrugs the elections shall be led by Sukhumi and Zakatala Electoral Commission.

10.  The Central Electoral Commission of the Republic shall be set up by the Parliament of Georgia composed of 21 members.  The Commission shall elect the Chairman, the Comrade (deputy) of the Chairman, secretary and the treasurer.

From the day of accepting the list of candidates, the political parties or groups, which have submitted the list, shall have one representative at the Central Electoral Commission with the full right of membership.

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22.  Sukhumi District Electoral Commission shall consist of nine members of City Board in accordance of distribution of power between the acting political parties.  The Commission shall have the Chairman, Comrade (deputy) of the Chairman, secretary and treasurer elected from the members of the Commission.

From the day of accepting the list of candidates, the political parties or groups, which have submitted the list to Sukhumi Okrug Commission, shall have one representative at the Central Electoral Commission with the full right of membership.

Note: Sukhumi District Commission shall have the responsibility as it is specified for the regional Commissions.

The village and community Commissions shall be set up in Sukhumi and Zakatala Okrugs and their responsibilities are specified for in Articles 18-21 of this Regulation.

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22 November 1918

Chairman of the Parliament of Georgia N. Chkheidze

Chairman of the Government of the Republic of Georgia N. Zhordania

(Central State Historical Archive of Georgia, f. 1836, desc. 1, file 85, p. 183-199)