CENTRAL DECISION-MAKING AND ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE (CDAC)

The Central Decision-Making and Administrative Committee (CDAC) is the highest decision-making body after the General Assembly and comprise 50 members elected by secret ballot. There are also 25 elected reserve members.

The term of office of the CDAC continues until the next ordinary meeting of the General Assembly unless an extraordinary election meeting convenes beforehand. In the event of a vacant CDAC membership, the reserve member next in line is invited by the Party chairman.

The Party chairman is the president of the CDAC.

The responsibilities and authority of the CDAC include the following:

·         To implement or ask for the implementation of the provisions of the Party Charter and Program and the decisions of the General Assembly, to take measures to ensure that the entire Party organization is in a state of productive and effective consensus, to provide the necessary coordination between all ranks of the Party;

·         to prepare documents related to Party policies and make them effective, to set up specialized committees and working offices, determining the working methods and principles for these or authorizing the Central Executive Committee to implement these in line with a procedure it will specify;

·         with a view to ensuring that the Party’s organizational ranks and bodies are formed in a democratic manner, to carry out all necessary organizational work and to take related measures within the framework of the law;

·         to set up a Party organization where necessary, to promote the Party’s principles and goals and to plan, implement or ask for the implementation of the work necessary for this;

·         in light of the Party’s principles and goals, to conduct or initiate all kinds of legal and political work that will allow the formation of a political school or institute, particularly providing those serving among Party ranks as well as Party members the opportunity to train, educate, develop and adopt a culture of democracy;

·         to build a Party platform on specific issues involving the country and the world, to announce these to the general public and, if necessary, to organize joint meetings with the Party’s Parliamentary Group in order to discuss such matters;

·         to plan Party work and activities and prepare or have prepared the necessary budgets to handle these plans;

·         to review and decide upon, within the scope of its responsibilities and authority, proposals coming from Party ranks and to follow up and inform the necessary offices about those proposals that are not a part of its responsibilities;

·         to make all necessary decisions related to elections, to exercise its authority regarding candidates for membership in Parliament, mayoralships and for municipal and provincial general assemblies;

·         to formulate all types of election mechanisms, work and strategies related to elections and to manage or ask for the management of the Party’s election-related activities;

·         to review, approve and present to the General Assembly the Party’s Annual Report, its annual budget, finalized accounts and balance sheets as well as other such items on the agenda;

·         to decide upon the purchase, sale and utilization of movable and immovable assets suitable for Party activities and goals and to set up encumbrances on such assets;

·         to terminate the Party and take all necessary decisions, except for amendments to the Program and Charter, at times when the Party General Assembly is unable to convene due to circumstances beyond its control;

·         to determine the number of members on the Central Executive Committee and the lower executive ranks upon the proposal of the Party chairman and to increase or decrease these numbers when necessary;

·         to decide upon the membership of the Party in international organizations, within the confines of the law, as well as upon the proposals for foreign-based representative offices, as per Article 20 of the Charter;

·         to exercise all authority between two Grand Assemblies, in order to take all action beneficial to the Party, and therefore to the country, that are not prohibited by the Law on Political Parties and Elections, other related regulations or the Party Program and Charter.