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Article 44
 

1. A necessary condition for registration of a federal list of candidates, a candidate is a support of the nomination by their voters, which can be determined by the recent election results to the State Duma, deputies of legislative (representative) state bodies of subjects of the Russian Federation or confirmed by the required number of voter signatures collected in support of the nomination.


2. The nomination by a political party of a federal list of candidates, candidate in singlemandate electoral district is considered to be supported by the voters on the basis of the recent election results to the State Duma, deputies of legislative (representative) state bodies of subjects of the Russian Federation and does not require the collection of signatures of voters in any of the following cases:


1) a federal list of candidates nominated by a political party, which according to the recent election results to the State Duma was admitted to distribution of deputy mandates or received not less than 3 per cent of votes from those who took part in the voting in the federal electoral district;


2) the list of candidates nominated by a political party, was admitted to the distribution of seats in the legislative (representative) state body at least in one subject of the Russian Federation convocation, acting on the day of official publication (announcement) of the decision to call the election of deputies of the State Duma;


3) list of candidates nominated by a political party in accordance with the law of the subject of the Russian Federation provided by paragraph 17 of Article 35 of the Federal Law "On Basic Guarantees", the deputy mandate was submitted to the legislative (representative) state body at least of one subject of the Russian Federation as of convocation on the day of official announcement of the decision to call the election of deputies of the state Duma.


3. In support of the nomination of the federal list of candidates by the political party, which is not covered by part 2 of this Article, it shall be collected at least 200 thousand signatures of voters, while no more than 7000 signatures of voters registered in the subject of the Russian Federation shall be for one subject of the Russian Federation.


4. Nomination of a candidate in single-mandate electoral district by political party referred to in part 3 of this Article and registered a federal list of candidates, considered to be supported by voters and does not require the collection of signatures.


5. Nomination of candidates, who are not covered by parts 2 and 4 of this Article or selfnomination of a candidates shall be supported by collected signatures of voters in the amount of at least 3 percent from the total number of voters registered at the territory of the relevant district indicated in the federal law on the approval of the scheme of singlemandate electoral districts, and if the electoral district consist of less than 100 thousand voters - at least 3 thousand signatures of voters.


6. The CEC not later than 10 days from the day of official announcement of the decision to call the election of deputies of the State Duma on the basis of the data contained in the GAS Vybory, shall compile the list of political parties, which are subjects to part 2 of this Articles. This list is published on a national state print media and posted on the official website of the CEC in the Internet.