Proxies

1. Candidates, the political parties which have nominated their party lists shall be eligible to have proxies to help them in conducting of electoral campaigns, pre-election campaigns and torepresent the interests of candidates and political parties.

2. Candidates and the political parties which have nominated the party lists shall determine their proxies at their own discretion in the number that shall not exceed three persons per each electoral district of the corresponding constituency and shall notify the corresponding election commission for their registration.

The persons to be offered by a candidate and a political party as proxies shall submit to the corresponding election commission an application expressing their willingness to act as a proxy.

The candidate to the Senate deputy shall be eligible to have one proxy in each district, city and district in the city.

3. The election commission after registration of proxies issues to them corresponding certificates.

4. The proxy must be a citizen of the Republic of Kazakhstan and cannot be a maslikhat deputy at elections of the Senate deputy, neither a member of any election commission or a person holding a post of a political civil servant.

5. Proxies shall have the rights and responsibilities of observers of political parties, other public associations and non-government organizations of the Republic of Kazakhstan and shall act within the limits of authority granted to them in written form by a candidate or a political party, which has nominated a party list.

6. Proxies shall lose their status after completion of electoral campaign by their own initiatives or by a decision of a candidate and a political party which has nominated the party list as well as in cases of cancellation of registration of a candidate or a party list, breach of this Constitutional Act.