National and district candidate lists of a political party (alliances of political parties)

1. Every political party (alliance of political parties) running in the elections shall nominate 1 national candidate list of candidates, which may consist of 2 parts, and 1 district candidate list for every electoral district.

2. The national candidate list of an alliance of political parties shall be made up from a national candidate list presented by every political party included in the alliance.

3. A political party (alliance of political parties) shall make up district candidate lists from the candidates included in the first part of the national candidate list thereof. A citizen may be included only in 1 district candidate list.

4. In the first part of the national candidate list of a political party, alliance of political parties and every of the political parties included in the alliance, the number of representatives of every sex, starting from the 1st place on the list, must not exceed 70 per cent in every integer group of 3 (1-3, 1-6, 1-9 and subsequently up to the end of the list). The first part of the national candidate list of a political party (alliance of political parties) shall include no less than 80 and no more than 300 candidates. The first part of the national candidate list of a political party (alliance of political parties) may include persons that are not members of that political party (any of member political parties to the alliance) the number of which may not exceed 30 per cent of the total number of the candidates included in the first part of the national candidate list.

5. The national candidate list may have a second part, wherein representatives of the first 4 national minorities with the largest number of resident population — according to the data of the latest census preceding the elections — may be included, in accordance with part 6 of this Article.
A candidate for Deputy, who is a representative of national minority, included in the second part of the national candidate list may also be included in the first part of the national candidate list.

6. The second part of the national candidate list of a political party (alliance of political parties) shall have 4 sections. Every section may include up to 4 representatives from the respective national minority. In case of not including a representative of a national minority in any section, the respective section shall not be filled in.
In the second part of the national candidate list the data of candidates for Deputy who are representatives of national minority with the largest number of resident population shall be listed in section 1 under consecutive numbers staring from “1”; data of candidates for Deputy who are representatives of national minority with the second largest number of resident population shall be listed in section 2 under consecutive numbers starting from “1”; data of candidates for Deputy who are representatives of national minority with the third largest number of resident population shall be listed in section 3 under consecutive numbers starting from “1”; data of candidates for Deputy who are representatives of national minority with the fourth largest number of resident population shall be listed in section 4 under consecutive numbers staring from “1”.

7. The first and second parts of the national candidate list of a political party (alliance of political parties) shall include — under consecutive numbers — the surname, name, patronymic, date of birth, sex, political affiliation, personal identification document number, place of registration, place of employment and position (occupation) of candidates for Deputy.

8. The national and district candidate lists of a political party (alliance of political parties) shall be approved and nominated by the decision of the permanently functioning governing body of the political party (by the decisions of permanently functioning governing bodies of member political parties to the alliance). All the pages of national and district candidate lists shall be sealed and signed by the competent person of a political party (member political parties to the alliance).

9. The district candidate list of a political party (alliance of political parties) may include maximum 1 candidate per 15 000 voters included in that electoral district according to the Register of Voters. The maximum number of candidates included in the district candidate list of a political party (alliance of political parties) in every electoral district shall be prescribed by the CEC based on the rule prescribed by this part, within 10 days after calling elections. The mentioned number for every electoral district shall be calculated based on the number in the Register of Voters.

10. The number of representatives of every sex must not exceed 70 per cent in the district candidate list of a political party (alliance of political parties) running in the elections.

11. The district candidate list of a political party (alliance of political parties) running in the elections shall include the surnames, names and patronymics of candidates for Deputy according to their surnames, and where they coincide — according to the names and surnames in alphabetical order. Where surnames, names and patronymics coincide, the date of birth shall be stated.

12. In case any political party leaves the alliance of political parties, the candidates for Deputy nominated in the national candidate list of that political party shall be removed — as prescribed by the CEC — from the national and district candidate lists of the alliance of political parties.