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Article 102
 

Refusal to Register a Party (Party Alliance) List or a Candidate Included in the List, or Invalidation of Registration

 

1. The Central Electoral Commission shall refuse to register a party (party alliance) electoral list, if:

1) Revoked

2) documents submitted for registration and/or nomination are forged. If inaccuracies are found the documents submitted for registration of a party (party alliance) electoral list or the said documents are incomplete, the Central Electoral Commission shall give 48 hours to correct the inaccuracies or supply the missing documents. Registration shall be refused if the inaccuracies are not corrected or the missing documents are not supplied within that period of time. The party (party alliance) list shall be registered, if the inaccuracies are corrected or the missing documents are supplied.

2. The Central Electoral Commission shall refuse to register a candidate included in a party (party alliance) list, if:

1) restrictions defined in this Code apply to that candidate;

2) documents about the person, submitted for registration and/or nomination, are forged. Registration of a candidate included in a party (party alliance) list shall be refused by a decision passed by at least two-thirds of the total number of commission members. If inaccuracies are discovered in the documents about a candidate included in a party (party alliance) list, submitted for registration of that candidate, or the documents are incomplete, the Central Electoral Commission shall give 48 hours to correct the inaccuracies or supply the missing documents. Registration shall be refused if the inaccuracies are not corrected or the missing documents are not supplied within that period of time.

3. If registration of a party (party alliance) list is refused, the electoral deposit shall be transferred to the state budget, unless the party (party alliance) requests the electoral deposit back within the 48 hours given to it to correct the inaccuracies in the documents submitted for registration or supply the missing documents.

4. The Central Electoral Commission shall invalidate the registration of a party (party alliance) list, if certain facts are revealed after the registration,

1) which result in the restrictions imposed by this Code to apply to the party’s (party alliance’s) electoral list;

2) if documents submitted for registration and/or nomination are forged.

5. Registration of a candidate included in a party (party alliance) list shall be considered invalid, if certain facts are revealed after the registration,

1) which result in the restrictions imposed by this Code to apply to the candidate;

2) documents about that candidate are forged. In such cases, the candidate shall be removed from the list.

6. If registration of a party (party alliance) list is invalidated, the electoral deposit and the money remaining in pre-election fund shall be transferred to the state budget.

7. Registration of a party (party alliance) list or a candidate included in the list shall be invalidated by a decision passed by at least two thirds of the total number of the Central Electoral Commission members.

8. The Central Electoral Commission’s decision to refuse or invalidate registration of a party (party alliance) list or a candidate included in the list may be appealed in a procedure and timeframes set forth by the Republic of Armenia Administrative Procedure Code.

9. The party (party alliance) list or the candidate included in it shall be considered registered or reregistered, if the court rules that the electoral commission’s decision to refuse or invalidate the registration of the party (party alliance) list or the candidate in it was illegal.