Candidates proposed by voters for elections to the Assembly
1. No later than 40 days from the election date, a group of voters in one electoral zone have the right to propose for that electoral zone a candidate who meets the criteria provided in article 45 and 69 of the Constitution and those provided in this Code.
2. A candidate proposed by a group of voters cannot be part of any party or coalition that is running in the elections, nor can he openly or indirectly support any other subject or candidate running in the elections.
3. For the submission of a candidate by the voters, an initiating committee is established, which is composed of no fewer than 9 voters from the respective electoral zone, who are charged with organizing the work of gathering the supporting signatures for the candidate in accordance with this Code. No later than 60 days before the election date, the initiating committee is to register with the CEC by submitting the names of the committee’s members. The committee can register a candidate for deputy only if it has gathered support from a number of voters that corresponds to no less than 1% of the voter list of that electoral zone, according to the procedures provided in this Code.
