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ARTICLE-36: Qualifications, nomination and election of judges     [go to this ARTICLE]
... (b) Every candidate for election to the Court shall: ...
... (c) Every candidate for election to the Court shall have an excellent knowledge of and be fluent in at least one of the working languages of the Court. ...
... (a) Nominations of candidates for election to the Court may be made by any State Party to this Statute, and shall be made either: ...
... (i) By the procedure for the nomination of candidates for appointment to the highest judicial offices in the State in question; or ...
... (ii) By the procedure provided for the nomination of candidates for the International Court of Justice in the Statute of that Court. ...
... Nominations shall be accompanied by a statement in the necessary detail specifying how the candidate fulfils the requirements of paragraph 3. ...
... (b) Each State Party may put forward one candidate for any given election who need not necessarily be a national of that State Party but shall in any case be a national of a State Party. ...
... 5. For the purposes of the election, there shall be two lists of candidates: ...
... List A containing the names of candidates with the qualifications specified in paragraph 3 (b) (i); and ...
... List B containing the names of candidates with the qualifications specified in paragraph 3 (b) (ii). ...
... A candidate with sufficient qualifications for both lists may choose on which list to appear. At the first election to the Court, at least nine judges shall be elected from list A and at least five judges from list B. Subsequent elections shall be so organized as to maintain the equivalent proportion on the Court of judges qualified on the two lists. ...
... (a) The judges shall be elected by secret ballot at a meeting of the Assembly of States Parties convened for that purpose under article 112. Subject to paragraph 7, the persons elected to the Court shall be the 18 candidates who obtain the highest number of votes and a two-thirds majority of the States Parties present and voting. ...


ARTICLE-42: The Office of the Prosecutor     [go to this ARTICLE]
... 4. The Prosecutor shall be elected by secret ballot by an absolute majority of the members of the Assembly of States Parties. The Deputy Prosecutors shall be elected in the same way from a list of candidates provided by the Prosecutor. The Prosecutor shall nominate three candidates for each position of Deputy Prosecutor to be filled. Unless a shorter term is decided upon at the time of their election, the Prosecutor and the Deputy Prosecutors shall hold office for a term of nine years and shall not be eligible for re-election. ...
... 4. The Prosecutor shall be elected by secret ballot by an absolute majority of the members of the Assembly of States Parties. The Deputy Prosecutors shall be elected in the same way from a list of candidates provided by the Prosecutor. The Prosecutor shall nominate three candidates for each position of Deputy Prosecutor to be filled. Unless a shorter term is decided upon at the time of their election, the Prosecutor and the Deputy Prosecutors shall hold office for a term of nine years and shall not be eligible for re-election. ...