Discuss (c) candidates' agents

Powers The constitutional entrenchment (the 2015 Constitution's Election Commission articles): the Chief Election Commissioner and up to four Commissioners (the President's appointment on the Constitutional Council's recommendation); the six-year term with no reappointment (the commissioner-to-CEC's cumulative count), the 65 age bar; the independence's guarantees (the salary-and-conditions' constitutional floor; the removal only on the constitutional-judges-type grounds — the constitutional bodies' common design). The powers and functions (the constitutional list): To conduct, supervise, direct and control the elections of the President, Vice- President, the Federal Parliament, the provincial assemblies and the local bodies — the five mandates' one authority (the "conduct-supervise-direct-control" quartet: the whole election's lifecycle under the one commission); The voters' lists' preparation and updating (the roll's custodianship — Unit 2.5); The referendum on matters of national importance (per the Constitution's and federal law's terms — the 1980's institutionalised heir); The candidacy's legitimacy — the final decision (the nomination's-and-disqualification's own adjudication, before the courts' review); The cooperation's command: the Government, the provinces and the local levels must assist (the election-time state's mobilisation duty). Beside: the delimitation's implementation duty (the commission's report-route), the code of conduct's issuance (the statutory power — Unit 4.5), the election calendar's whole choreography, and the election-period's extraordinary powers (the officials' transfers-and-deployments' control in the election's window — the level field's protection). The EMB's typology (the theory's frame):…