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"Guarantees for the fundamental right of periodic free and fair elections which universal, equal, and non-discriminatory suffrage and secret balloting, and for the right to be elected and to have access to the public service on equal terms should be enshrined in the Constitution or other high organic law of the State."

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UN (Center for Human Rights): Human Rights and Elections: A Handbook on the Legal, Technical, and Human Rights Aspects of Elections, para. 129

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Human Rights and Elections: A Handbook on the Legal, Technical, and Human Rights Aspects of Elections

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The fundamental aspects of the electoral law should be enshrined in the constitution or at another level higher than ordinary law.