Registration of Community Leader and Council Member Candidates
1. Community leader and council member candidates shall be registered by the decision of the Territorial Electoral Commission. The nominated candidate or his/her authorized representative shall have the right to be present at the commission session when the issue of his/her registration is being discussed.
2. The Territorial Electoral Commission shall refuse to register a nominated candidate, if:
1) restrictions established in this Code apply to the candidate;
2) documents submitted for registration are forged. In case of an objection to registration of a community leader or council member candidate, the matter shall be put to a vote. The registration shall be refused if at least two-thirds of the Territorial Electoral Commission members vote against it. If there are no objections, the candidate shall be considered registered. If a community leader or council member candidate’s registration is refused, his/her electoral deposit shall be transferred to the state budget, unless the candidate requests the electoral deposit back within the 48 hours given to him or her to correct the inaccuracies in documents submitted for registration or supply missing documents.
If inaccuracies are discovered in documents submitted for registration of a community leader or council member candidate, or if the documents are incomplete, the Territorial Electoral Commission shall give 48 hours to correct the inaccuracies or supply the missing documents. The registration shall be refused, if the inaccuracies are not corrected or the missing documents are not supplied within that period of time. The candidate shall be registered, if the inaccuracies are corrected and the missing documents are supplied within that period time.
3. The Territorial Electoral Commission shall invalidate the registration of a community leader or council member candidate, if certain facts are revealed after the registration, which result in the restrictions defined in this Code starting to apply to the candidate. The registration of a community leader or council member candidate may be invalidated with a decision voted for by at least two-thirds of the Territorial Electoral Commission members. If a candidate’s registration is invalidated, his/her electoral deposit and the money left in his/her pre-election fund shall be transferred to the state budget.
4. The Territorial Electoral Commission’s decision to refuse or invalidate a community leader or council member candidate’s registration may be appealed in a procedure and timeframes set forth by the Republic of Armenia Administrative Procedure Code. The candidate shall be considered registered or reregistered if the court rules that the decision to refuse or invalidate the registration of the community leader or council member candidate was illegal.