Authorized representatives of candidates and political parties nominating list of candidates

1. Candidates and political parties can appoint authorized representatives to represent them on the issues connected with participation in elections and finance.
2. Deputies, members of government, officers of the President’s Office, Jogorku Kenesh, Central Government Office, officials of state power bodies, local governments, judges, servicemen and officers of law enforcement and fiscal bodies, foreign citizens and individuals without citizenship may not be authorized representatives.
3. The list of authorized representatives of candidates and political parties shall be submitted to the CEC with indication of the terms of reference, last name, first name, patronymic, date of birth, passport number or the number of the replacing document, date of issue, residence address, full time job, post or occupation (where there is no full time job, occupation should be indicated) and telephone number of each authorized representative. Authorized representative of a candidate in the financial sphere must have the right of signing financial documents. Apart from the abovementioned list to be submitted to the CEC, authorized representatives should provide their written consent to fulfill the functions of the authorized representative.
4. Within 2 calendar days after submission of all required documents the CEC shall issue registered certificates to authorized representatives or take a reasoned decision to refuse registration in line with this Constitutional Law.
5. Authorized representative of candidate or political party shall be regarded appointed and shall acquire all the rights and duties of the authorized representative after issuance of the registered certificate by CEC.
6. Authorized representative of candidate or political party acting as government or municipal official may not take advantages of his/her official capacity or employment status.
7. Authorized representative shall:

1) certify candidacy lists when collecting signatures of voters in support of candidate to the post of the President, count signatures, draw up protocol on the results of signature collection;
2) submit candidacy lists in support of candidate to the post of the President to the appropriate election commission, as well as other documents for registration of candidate;
3) receive written confirmation issued by the appropriate election commission in connection with acceptance thereby of candidacy lists and other documents;
4) carry out election campaign, disseminate campaigning materials;
5) shall be entitled to participate in the random draw procedure conducted by the election commission in order to determine provision of air time to candidates and political parties;
6) attend meetings of election commission on the issues related to candidates and political parties that nominated authorized representatives;
7) implement other activities specified by this Constitutional Law and on instructions of candidate or political party.

8. Candidate or political party may terminate powers of the authorized representative at any time by sending a written notice to the CEC that has registered such authorized representative.
9. The term of powers assigned to the authorized representative of a candidate or political party shall take effect on the day of his/her registration by the CEC and shall expire from the date of candidate’s losing his/her status of candidate for presidency or Jogorku Kenesh deputy, or when all candidates lose the status of candidates nominated as political party candidates, but no later than the day of official announcement of election results. Term of powers exercised by the authorized financial representative of candidates or political parties shall expire 20 days after the announcement of election results.