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Article 76
 

A candidate for the President of the Republic of Belarus may have up to 30 authorized persons, a candidate for deputy of the House of Representatives up to 15 authorized persons and a candidate for deputy of a local Council of Deputies up to 5 authorized persons.


Authorized persons help the candidate in carrying election campaign, agitate for his election and represent interests of the candidate in relationship with state bodies, public associations and voters as well as in commissions.


A candidate for the President of the Republic of Belarus or for deputy defines authorized persons at his discretion and inform about them in a written application respectively to the Central Commission, the circuit and the territorial electoral commissions for registration.In an application, in relation to each authorized person, the surname, name and patronymic, date of birth, place of residence, series and number of the passport of the citizen of the Republic of Belarus shall be indicated. The respective commission, within a three-day period from the day of receipt of the application, registers authorized persons and issue certificates to them.


Candidates for the President of the Republic of Belarus, for deputies may not act as authorized persons of a candidate for the President of the Republic of Belarus, for deputies.


A candidate for the President of the Republic of Belarus or for deputy has the right to recall authorized persons at any time prior to the elections day informing about it the respective commissions that cancels the certificates issued to them.An authorized person may renounce his powers at any time.


An authorized person of a candidate for the President of the Republic of Belarus may not be member of the Central Commission, territorial and precinct commissions on elections of the President of the Republic of Belarus, whereas a authorized person of a candidate for deputy of the House of Representatives or for deputy of a local Council of Deputies – a member of the Central Commission, the circuit, territorial and precinct electoral commissions in which he represents the candidate for deputy and, from the time of his registration by the respective commission, is considered relieved of the duties in the commission.


Authorized persons of a candidate for the President of the Republic of Belarus or for deputy may be relieved, on the request of the candidate, of labour (service) duties without preservation of the salary after their registration till the day of elections.The ground for such relief is a decision of the respective commission on registration of the authorized person and the application of the authorized person on granting to him a leave without retention of the salary for taking part in pre-election events.