Article 33. Conditions of Candidate Nomination
1. A written notice of nomination of a candidate, a list of candidates shall be submitted to the relevant election commission. The form of such written notification and the procedure for its submission shall be established by law.
2. A candidate shall be considered nominated and shall acquire the rights and responsibilities of a candidate provided for by this Federal Law, another law after the relevant election commission has received the notice referred to in Clause 1 of this article, and a written statement made by the nominated person about his consent to stand for election in the relevant electoral district. The statement must indicate the biographical data of the candidate: his surname, first name and patronymic; date and place of birth; address of the place of residence; education; main place of work or service; position (occupation, if there is no main place of work or service); if the candidate is a deputy and exercises his powers on a non-permanent basis - this fact and the name of the relevant representative body; kind, series, number and date of issuance of the identity document containing information about the citizenship, address of the place of residence and the name or code of the body which issued this document, and the date of its issue, information about the candidate’s convictions, citizenship, including citizenship of a foreign state, indicating the date and grounds for its acquisition, and with an obligation, if elected, to discontinue the activities incompatible with the status of a deputy or another elective office. A candidate shall be entitled to declare membership in not more than one public association registered in the procedure established by law, and his status in such public association, provided that a document is submitted together with the notice referred to in Clause 1 of this article that confirms the above data and is certified by a permanent leading body of this public association.
3. Together with the notice referred to in Clause 1 of this article, the relevant election commission shall be provided with information about the size and sources of the candidate’s income and about any property owned by the candidate (each candidate on the list of candidates) (including property co-owned by the candidate), about deposits in banks, securities. The information about the size and sources of income shall be submitted in the form of a copy of the tax declaration of the citizen who is a candidate for the year preceding the year in which the election was called (with a note of the tax authority at the place of submission). If, under Russian Federation laws, the citizen who is a candidate does not have to file a tax declaration, he shall submit certified information about his income (including the pension, benefits, other payments) for the year preceding the year in which the election was called from the legal entities and/or natural persons, which/who are tax agents under the federal law, from the organizations making such payments. The information about the property owned by the candidate and other information indicated in this clause shall be submitted in accordance with the form shown in the Annex to this Federal Law, and this Annex may be supplemented by the federal law. If, in the year preceding the year in which the election was called, the candidate did not receive any income and/or does not own any property to be reported in accordance with this clause, this fact must be indicated under this clause in the candidate's statement of consent to stand for election in the relevant electoral district. Federal Law may require that, along with the above information, similar information be provided about the candidate’s spouse.
4. At elections of deputies of representative bodies of local self-government where electoral districts are formed in accordance with the average quota of voters’ representation that does not exceed five thousand voters, candidates do not need to submit to the relevant election commission the information specified in Clause 3 of this article unless otherwise provided by the law of the subject of the Russian Federation.
5. A candidate (except candidates nominated on a list of candidates) shall personally submit the documents specified in Clauses 1 to 3 of this article. The documents specified in Clauses 1 to 3 of this article may be submitted, at the request of the candidate, by other persons. If the candidate is ill, held in custody in places where suspects and defendants are held (in this case the candidate's signature on the statement shall be notarially certified or certified in writing by the administration of the hospital in which the candidate is being treated or the administration of the place of detention where he is held in custody as a suspect or defendant), in other cases specified by a federal law.
6. The election commission shall apply to relevant bodies with a request to verify the information provided under Clauses 2 and 3 of this article. Relevant bodies shall, at the request of the election commission, verity such information and report the results of the verification to the election commission within ten days.
7. The election commission shall communicate to voters the information about candidates that they provided at the time of their nomination within the scope established by the election commission organizing the election.
8. The election commission shall communicate to the mass media information about discovered inaccuracy of the data submitted by candidates.
9. The period that is established by law for nomination of candidates, lists of candidates, and collection of voter signatures in support of nominated candidates, lists of candidates or otherwise support of nomination shall be at least 40 days (in the event of an early election, at least 30 days) at elections of federal bodies of state power, at least 30 days at elections of bodies of state power of subjects of the Russian Federation, and at least 20 days at elections of bodies of local self-government.
