Registration of candidate lists
(amended as of 23/04/2015)

1. To register the list of candidates, authorized representatives of political parties shall submit the following documents to the CEC no later than 40 calendar days before the election day, until 6 pm local time:

1) decision of a political party on nomination of the list of candidates; the decision shall be certified with the signature of the political party leader and the seal;
2) special data forms filled out by each candidate included into the list of candidates with the indication of biographical and other data, copies of their passports, certificates from the place of work or study;
3) document certifying the payment of a financial deposit.The CEC must issue a written acknowledgment (certificate) of receipt of these documents to the person, who has submitted the documents. The confirmation (certificate) shall be issued immediately upon submission of the documents.

2. Political parties nominating candidate lists shall transfer a financial deposit of 50,000-fold amount of the calculated index established by the legislation from their election fund to the special account of the CEC. This shall be done prior to registration and after verification of the submitted documents.
After the elections, the financial deposit paid shall be refunded to those political parties, whose lists obtained 5 and more per cent of the votes of voters who participated in voting. Non-refunded financial deposits are not transferred to the state budget and spent by the CEC for the purposes of conduct of elections, development of the electoral system.

3. The CEC within 10 calendar days from the date of documents adoption shall check correspondence between the candidates’ list nomination procedure and the requirements of this Constitutional Law and shall register the list of candidates or make a reasoned decision to reject registration. If the Election Commission has found inconsistencies in the candidate’s documents or candidates’ list, which is an obstacle for registration of the candidate or candidates list, the election commission shall notify the political party of these inconsistencies within 24 hours after receiving the documents. A political party may, within 48 hours upon receipt of the notification, make necessary changes and submit the revised documents to the relevant election commission.

4. It is not permitted to register the same person in more than one list of candidates.

5. Registration of the candidates’ list shall end 30 calendar days before the elections.

6. If within the period specified in this Article, no list or one registered list of candidates was nominated in the single district, the elections will be postponed by decision of the CEC for 25 calendar days for additional nomination of the candidates’ list and the subsequent electoral activities.

7. If a decision to reject registration of a candidate or list of candidates has been taken, the CEC must provide a copy of the decision with the specified grounds for refusal to the authorized representative of the political party. This must be done within 1 day from decision making.

Grounds for refusal may be as follows:

1) failure to provide documents required under this constitutional Law for registration of the candidates’ list,
2) non-compliance with the nomination procedures provided for by the present Constitutional Law;
3) a candidate has no right to be elected;
4) a candidate is registered in the list of another political party in this election;
5) a political party’s failure to create its election fund;
6) a candidate is a citizen of another country.

If an authorized representative of a political party has not submitted all documents indicated in this Article that are necessary for registration, but provided them in addition prior to the deadline of the registration period, the CEC shall be obliged to register the candidate or the list of candidates.
8. The grounds for refusal of registration under this Article in respect of certain candidates included into the list of candidates may serve as a basis for their exclusion only from the certified list of candidates.

9. A decision to deny registration of the candidates’ list may be appealed to the superior election commission or the court.

10. A candidate included into the list of candidates may, any time, but no later than three days prior to the election day, refuse to participate further in the election by submitting the appropriate written application to the CEC. A political party may, any time, but no later than three days prior to the election day recall its list of candidates and refuse to participate further in the election or exclude some of its candidates from the list by submitting the appropriate written application to the CEC. Based on the mentioned applications, the CEC which has registered the list of candidates must take a decision on exclusion of the candidate from a relevant list of candidates.

11. The CEC no later than the fifth day after registration of the candidates’ list shall publish this information in mass media and indicate the names of political parties. In addition, name, surname, patronymic, year of birth, position (occupation) and place of residence of each candidate included into the list of candidates from the political party shall be indicated.

12. The CEC within 2 calendar days after the registration shall provide the candidates with the appropriate certificates, where the registration date is specified.