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Article 32
 

1. Citizens of the Russian Federation who are entitled to a passive electoral right may be nominated candidates directly or on a list of candidates in accordance with this Federal Law, another law.


2. Direct nomination of candidates may be carried out by way of self-nomination, nomination by an electoral association.


(in the version of Federal Law of July 21, 2005, # 93-FZ)


3. Nomination of candidates on a list of candidates may be carried out by political party entitled, in accordance with federal law, to participate in elections, or its regional office, or another unit having, according to federal law, the right to participate in elections of the appropriate level.


(in the version of Federal Laws of July 21, 2005,# 93-FZ, of April 5, 2009, # 42-FZ)


31. If a constitution, a charter, a law of the subject of the Russian Federation envisages that all deputy seats in the legislative/representative body of state power of the subject of the Russian federation, the representative body of the municipality are allocated between lists of candidates, pro rata the number of votes of the voters received by each of the lists of candidates, the law of the subject of the Russian Federation should envisage guarantees of exercise of the right of citizens of the Russian Federation, who are not members of the election associations, to be elected as deputies of this legislative/representative body of state power of the subject of the Russian Federation, of the representative body of the municipality, accordingly.


(Section 31 is introduced by Federal Law of July 21, 2005, # 93-FZ)


4. A citizen of the Russian Federation who occupied the office of President of the Russian Federation and is removed from the office of President of the Russian Federation as a result of impeachment, persistent inability to exercise presidential powers for health reasons, or resignation shall not be nominated as a candidate for the election called in connection to such circumstances.


5. Became invalid – Federal Law of December 11, 2004, # 159-FZ.


6. A citizen of the Russian Federation who occupied the office of the head of a municipality and is retired from the said office of his free will, in particular, due to his/her election deputy or to another elected position, holding of which is incompatible with the status of the head of the municipal entity or dismissed from the office of the head of the municipality by the top executive of the subject of the Russian Federation (the head of the highest executive body of state power of a subject of the Russian Federation) shall not be nominated as a candidate at the election called because of such circumstances.


(Section 6 in the version of Federal Law of July 21, 2005, # 93-FZ)


7. In a repeat election or a by-election held to fill a vacancy of a deputy in an operating legislative (representative) body of state power, a representative body of municipality, a person who is a deputy (member) of such body shall not be nominated as a candidate.


(in the version of Federal Law of July 21, 2005, # 93-FZ).


8. A citizen of the Russian Federation who is not entitled to a passive electoral right at the relevant election shall not be nominated as a candidate.


9. A candidate shall not be nominated, at one and the same election, in more than one electoral district. This rule shall not apply when a candidate is nominated by one and the same electoral association, at one and the same election in a single-seat (or a multi-seat) electoral district and on a list of candidates.


(in the version of Federal Law of July 21, 2005, # 93-FZ)


10. A candidate shall not, at one and the same election, give consent to nomination by more than one nomination initiator.