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Article 102
 

Determination of sequence numbers for candidates for President of Georgia


1. A sequence number shall be determined for a candidate for President of Georgia 25 days before elections as provided for by this article. In order to determine a sequence number, respective procedures shall be conducted in the CEC premises in the presence of persons authorised to be present at CEC sessions.


2. A candidate nominated by a political union that received the most votes during the previous parliamentary elections held under the proportional system shall be the first to choose a sequence number. A representative of a political union shall file an application to the CEC, whereby a candidate nominated by the political union shall choose the number assigned to the political union that nominated him/her during the previous parliamentary elections or shall take number ‘one’. The candidates whose nominating parties took second and third places according to the results of the previous parliamentary elections shall have the right to successively choose a sequence number under the same procedure. The nominating parties shall have the right to maintain the number assigned to them during the previous parliamentary elections or to choose numbers ‘two’ or ‘three’ accordingly, except when the number assigned to them during the previous parliamentary elections has been assigned to a candidate nominated by the political union that placed higher in the previous parliamentary elections.


3. If a sequence number was assigned to an electoral bloc during the previous parliamentary elections, a candidate nominated by the party that is the first in the electoral bloc list shall have the right to use the same number.


4. Except for the cases referred to in the second and third paragraphs of this article, a sequence number shall be defined for a presidential candidate by casting lots.


5. In order to cast lots, the CEC Chairperson shall write numbers corresponding to the number of presidential candidates on sheets of paper of the same type, size and shape with the same pen. Each sheet of paper shall be certified by the CEC seal. Thereafter, the numbers chosen according to the second paragraph of this article shall be set aside. All remaining sheets of paper shall be folded so as to make it impossible to read the numbers written thereon. The CEC Chairperson shall put these sheets of paper in a transparent box and one representative of each presidential candidate shall take one sheet of paper out of the box. The number identified by casting lots shall be assigned to a presidential candidate.


6. If the electoral registration of a presidential candidate is cancelled, the remaining candidates shall maintain their assigned sequence numbers.


7. The CEC shall publish the list of registered presidential candidates on its official website not later than 24 days prior to the polling day.