Nomination of candidates to the Mazhilis deputies

1. The right to nominate candidates to the Mazhilis deputies on the basis of the party lists shall belong to political parties registered in accordance with the set procedures, while the right to nominate candidates to the Mazhilis deputies to be elected by the Assembly of the People of Kazakhstan shall belong to the Board of Assembly.

2. Individuals shall be included into a party list to be elected as the Mazhilis deputies in through a single national constituency by a majority vote of the total number of members of the supreme body of a political party. Political parties may not include into party lists those individuals, who are not members of this political party.

The decision of the supreme body of a political party shall be forwarded to the Central Election Commission together with an individual’s consent to be included into the party list.

3. Political parties shall make party lists in the alphabetical order of the state language. The party list shall then be submitted to the Central Election Commission by a representative of the political party along with an abstract from the minutes of the supreme body of the political party about nomination of the party list. The authority of such representative must be proven by relevant documents.

4. Candidates to the Mazhilis deputies of the Parliament to be elected by the Assembly of the People of Kazakhstan shall be nominated by the Board of the Assembly. Relevant decisions shall be taken by a majority vote and shall be recorded in the minutes of the Board.

The decision of the Board of the Assembly of the People of Kazakhstan shall be submitted to the Central Election Commission together with the individual’s consent to run for the Mazhilis.

5. Nomination of candidates to the Mazhilis deputies to be elected on the basis of the party lists shall begin two months prior and end forty days prior to the election unless other deadlines are set at the time of appointing of the election.

Nomination of candidates to the Mazhilis deputies to be elected by the Assembly of the People of Kazakhstan shall begin one month prior and end twenty days prior to the election.