Nomination of candidates to members of the local selfgovernment bodies

1. The right to nominate candidates to members of the local self-government bodies shall belong to assemblies of citizens, which shall be legally qualified in case of availability at least fifty citizens having the suffrage and compactly living in rural and urban local communities as well as to the citizens by self-nomination.

2. The decision to nominate candidates to members of the local self-government bodies shall be taken by the majority of votes of citizens present at the assembly. The decision shall be validated by the corresponding minutes.

3. The decision of the assembly of citizens shall be:

1) brought to the notice of the proposed candidate;

2) sent to the corresponding territorial election commission with the candidate’s application expressing his/her consent to run for candidacy to deputies.

4. Nomination of candidates to members of the local self-government bodies by the citizens shall be made through self-nomination by submission to the corresponding territorial election commission of an application on intent to run for the candidacy to members of the local selfgovernment bodies in the territory of the corresponding rural or urban local community.

5. The citizen who does not live in the territory of the given rural or urban local community cannot be nominated as a candidate to members of the local self-government bodies.

6. The number of the nominated candidates shall not be limited.

7. Nomination of candidates shall begin from the day following appointment of an election, and ends fourteen days prior to the day of elections.

8. If on the day of termination of the term of registration of candidates less than two candidates to members of the local self-government bodies have been registered, the territorial election commission extends the term for nomination of candidates but not for more than twenty days.

9. The territorial election commission within three days shall determine conformity of the candidate to the requirements of the Constitution and this Constitutional Act.