2 CHAPTER OPERATIONS OF ELECTORAL COMMISSIONS The operations of the electoral commissions will be dealt with in three fields: ­Structuring of the commissions, their'organizational chart'; - Their prerogatives; - Their financial regime. 2.1 Internal structuring T he principles of internal structuring of electoral commissions are distributed between legislative, regulatory and constitutional legal texts(notably for Anglophone countries) on the one hand, and the laws resulting from the self-organization capacity on the other hand. The main goal of these principles is to guarantee the proximity and effectiveness of the commissions. In general, electoral commissions have executive bodies(offices) and comprise parts which cover the administrative sections of the country. In Burkina Faso, the organization and operations of the INEC are stipulated by the decision of the chairman of the institution after deliberation of its members. INEC is endowed with a permanent 44