National minorities in the election - National Election Office
- What is the enrolment of national minorities?
- Persons belonging to some national minority may request to be enrolled in this quality during the parliamentary elections. This also entitles the voter to participate in the election of self-governments of the national minorities.
- During the parliamentary election voters registered as national minorities may
- cast their votes as non-minority voters (for an individual candidate and a national party list) or
- if they expressly request at the registration of national minorities that the scope of their registration should cover that of the parliamentary elections, they may vote for the national minority list (besides an individual candidate), instead of voting for the party lists.
- National minorities’ list may obtain MP mandates under preferential conditions.
- The officially recognized minorities: Armenian, Bulgarian, Croatian, German, Greek, Polish, Roma, Romanian, Ruthenian, Serbian, Slovakian, Slovenian, Ukrainian
- Those who already requested (e.g. before the 2014 elections) to be enrolled as minority voters, stay in this status until revoked and do not need to re-apply.
- If you happen to be a registered national minority voter for the parliamentary elections, then your minority’s national self-government will automatically receive your name and address to facilitate the collecting of recommendations.
- How does national minority recommendation go?
- During parliamentary elections the minority self-governments must collect recommendations to put forward their own national list.
- A national minority list may be put forward if the number of collected supporting signatures reaches at least 1% but a maximum of 1.500 of the total number of enrolled voters of the given minority.
- If you happen to be a registered national minority voter for the parliamentary elections, then your minority’s national self-government will automatically receive your name and address to facilitate the collecting of recommendations.
- What happens if somebody wants to vote for a national minority list and asked to be enrolled accordingly, but the given national minority does not put forward such a list?
In this case the voter will automatically get a regular national party list ballot (aside from the single member constituency ballot)