Third Section
BASIC PRINCIPLES FOR THE FUNCTIONING OF THE STATE ORGANS

Article 54

1. The State is obliged to register those with voting rights and to convoke them to participate in the elections. The registration of the voters shall serve no other purpose. Those with a right to vote are obliged to cooperate with the registration of the electorate.
2. For the organization and the functioning of the state organs the following principles shall be respected:

   a. Decisions of higher State organs shall be binding upon lower organs. This rule does not apply to judicial organs;

   b. Lower State organs shall be deemed to submit justification to the superior organs and to give account of their work;

   c. The local, administrative and executive organs shall be subject to control by the representative bodies;

   d. The freedom of discussion, criticism and recognition of the minority and the majority shall apply in all councils and organs of the State;

   e. Those who hold political office shall be liable in civil and criminal law for their acts and omissions;

   f. Those who hold political office shall be under the obligation to fulfill their tasks in the public interest;

   g. No one shall be nominated for life in a political office;

   h. The central authority shall organize the regular dissemination of information on government policy and state administration, in order to allow the people to participate optimally in the administrative structures. The lower administration shall ha ve the obligation to create a process of communication with the people, for the purpose of making government public-oriented and for participation in policy-making.