qualified 2/3 majority. This requirement is understandably so to strengthen the protection of the members of the commission. The Ghanaian law on the issue dealt with here, which is the most verbose since it dwells on the dismissal procedure, remains thus judicially very important, with the stages of hearing, instruction, etc. The final decision is taken by the president of the country, who as the final authority officially appoints and dismisses members of the electoral commission. He must however act, as stated by the Ghanaian law, in accordance with the recommendations of the committee made of 5 members out of which 3 are judges. It can therefore be rightly said that the presidential competence on matters of dismissal is tied and not free. In the case of Senegal, it is anticipated that the cessation of tenure of members of the INEC occurs upon the resignation of the person or in case of a physical or mental disability detected by a doctor designated by the council after the view in accordance with INEC. On the other hand, if the inability of the member is prolonged beyond 5 statutory meetings of the commission, the tenure will be terminated; a bylaw provides for his replacement by another person from the same institution which he represented. This new member shall fulfill the remaining part of the tenure in question. In all, provisions relating to the voluntary or involuntary resignation of members of electoral commissions call for three main comments. First, it appears that many of them are characterized by their shortcomings. Sometimes, the issue of anticipated cessation of duties is totally evaded( Mali), sometimes it is quickly dealt with through an extremely general mention of the causes of the dismissal. Obviously, it will be unreasonable to ask a legislator or a constituent to be exhaustive on the matter, but the intervention of these bodies for the 39