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Article 20
 

Proxies of candidates or political parties nominating list of candidates


1. Candidate and political party can nominate their proxies.
2. Proxies shall be registered by the CEC on the basis of written application of candidate, or recommendation of political party, and application of the citizen, who wants to become an agent. The CEC shall issue a certificate to the proxy of a standard pattern.
3. Deputies, members of the government, officers of the President’s Office, Central Government Office, Jogorku Kenesh, officials of state power bodies and local governments, members of election commissions, judges, officers of law enforcement and fiscal bodies, and foreign citizens may not be proxies.
4. Proxy shall act within the authority provided to them by candidates or political parties.
5. Proxies shall be entitled to:


1) carry out campaigning and other activities supporting election of candidate (list of candidates), present their electoral programs;
2) deliver speeches at pre-election assemblies, meeting with voters, participate in debates and discussions;
3) attend election commission meetings;
4) attend precincts during voting, votes counting and summarizing voting returns;
5) review documents of election commissions and protocols on voting returns and election results;
6) appeal against decisions and activity (inactivity) of the election commission and attend processing of complaints and applications.


6. Proxies of candidates or political parties may not:


1) interfere with the work of the election commission;
2) sign instead of a voter on his/her request when he/she is issued a ballot or fill out his/her ballots;
3) present informative TV and radio programs (broadcast), participate in coverage of the elections via mass media if proxies are journalists, creative specialists or officials of these media editorial offices;


7. Candidates or political parties shall be entitled to recall their proxies at any time by notifying the CEC about revocation; the CEC shall revoke a certificate issued to those proxies. Proxy can at any time on his/her own initiative resign returning to the CEC a certificate issued to him and notifying a candidate or political party that nominated him/her.
8. Powers of proxies shall be terminated if their registered candidate loses his/her status, or if candidates included into the list of candidates by political parties, lose their status.