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Article 57
 

57.1. The state bodies, municipalities and legal entities, regardless of their type of property shall be prohibited from participating in collection of signatures. it shall be prohibited to make voters sign signature sheets, to prevent them from signing, or paying any kind of reward during the signature collecting processes. if non observance of this prohibition is approved by a relevant court, it can be the basis for considering the collected signatures invalid, and for refusal to register candidates and registered candidates.


57.2. A citizen of the Republic of Azerbaijan who is 18 years old and possesses active suffrage rights may collect voters’ signatures. A candidate, political party, or bloc of political parties may sign an agreement on collecting signatures with a person who shall collect voters’ signatures. Payment for this job may be made only from the election fund of a candidate, political party and bloc of political parties.


57.3. Signatures in support of candidates may be collected in educational institutions, residential areas, and other venues where election campaigning is not prohibited by law.


57.4. A voter shall record the following information when signing the signature sheet:


• forename, surname, patronymic, date of birth;


• address of residence;


• ID or substitute document serial and batch number and date of issue; and


• date of signature.


This information may be recorded on the signature sheet by the person collecting signatures. This information shall be recorded by hand and its confidentiality ensured.


57.5. Signature sheets shall be prepared in accordance with Appendices # 1, 2, 3 to this Code.


57.6. Voters’ signatures in support of a candidate may be collected on the front and reverse side of signature sheets. The reverse side of the signature sheets shall be considered as a continuation of the front, and certifying signatures put on the reverse side.


57.7. After the collection of signatures is completed, signature sheets shall be signed by the person collecting signatures and by the candidate. Before signing the signature sheet, the person collecting signatures shall enter the following personal information:


• surname, forename, patronymic;


• address of residence; and


• ID or substitute document serial and batch number and date of issue.


57.8. if the candidate is nominated by a political party or bloc of political parties, the signature sheet shall be signed by the person collecting signatures and by an authorized representative of a political party, or bloc of political parties, after signature collection has been completed. Before signing the signature sheet, the person collecting signatures shall record the following personal information:


• surname, forename, patronymic;


• address of residence;


• ID or substitute document serial and batch number and date of issue.


The relevant authorized representative shall record his/her surname, name, patronymic and date of signature.


57.9. After a political party, bloc of political parties or voters’ initiative group of voters, which nominated a candidate, informs the relevant election commission on nomination of the candidate in writing, they may collectively gather the necessary number of signatures supporting the candidate. in such cases, the integration of signatures supporting the candidate, collected by different persons shall be allowed.


57.10. initiators of the nomination of a candidate, authorized representatives of a candidate, political party or bloc of political parties shall count the number of signatures collected in support of the candidate, and draw up and sign the protocol on the results of signature collection.


57.11. Signature sheets should be submitted to the relevant election commissions in the form of a folder with numbered pages.