Article 25. Membership in the territorial, sub-regional, city, district and precinct election commissions

Members of the election commission, carrying out their activities on a voluntary basis, cannot be dismissed at the initiative of the employer or transferred to another job without their consent during the period of preparation and conduct of elections.

Members of the territorial, sub-regional, city election commission, district and precinct election commission may be citizens who have reached the age of twenty-one, have secondary or higher education, as a rule, work experience in preparing and conducting elections, and enjoy authority among the population.

Members of the territorial, sub-regional and city election commissions, district and precinct election commissions cannot be:

deputy of the Legislative Chamber, deputy of the local Kengash, member of the Senate;

members of another election commission;

members of political parties and authorized representatives;

khokims of regions, districts and cities and their deputies;

officials of the prosecutor's office, courts;

candidates, close relatives and proxies of candidates;

persons who are directly subordinate to candidates;

citizens who have an outstanding or unexpunged conviction for serious or especially serious crimes.

Based on the decision of the Central Election Commission, up to three members of the territorial election commission work in the commission on a permanent basis, the remaining members on a voluntary basis.

Members of the sub-region and city election commissions work on a voluntary basis.

Members of the territorial election commission who work on a permanent basis cannot engage in other types of paid activities, except for scientific, creative and pedagogical activities.

More than half of the members of the precinct election commission cannot be recommended from one organization, with the exception of precinct election commissions formed at diplomatic and other missions of the Republic of Uzbekistan in foreign countries, in military units, sanatoriums and rest homes, hospitals and other inpatient medical institutions, places of detention and imprisonment.

A member of the election commission registered as a candidate for the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan, deputies of the Legislative Chamber and local Kengashes or an authorized representative is considered to have retired from the election commission.