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Articulo 41
 

1. At a written request or report of a registered candidate, the administration of the organization, the commanding officer of the military unit, the head of the body of internal affairs where the candidate works, serves, undergoes alternative civil service or military training, studies shall relieve the candidate from work, service, training sessions on any day and for any time in the period from the day of the candidate's registration to the day of the official publication of the election results.


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


2. During the election period, a registered candidate shall not, at the initiative of the administration (employer), be dismissed from his job, service, expelled from an educational establishment, transferred to another job without his consent, sent on business trips, called up for military service or military training or ordered to do an alternative civilian service.


3. The time of participation of a registered candidate in the election shall be included in his overall service time in accordance with his specialty before the registration as a candidate.


4. Resolutions as to instigation of a criminal case with respect to registered candidate, his/her engagement as an accused person under a criminal case may be made with consent of the Chairman of the Investigation Committee of the Russian Federation, head of the investigation body of the Investigation Committee of the Russian Federation (according to the level of elections). The petition to a court as to selection of imprisonment as a penalty with respect to a registered candidate may be instigated with consent of the Chairman of the Investigation Committee of the Russian Federation, the head of the investigation body of the Investigation committee of the Russian Federation (according to the level of elections). The registered candidate cannot be subjected to administrative penalty imposed juridically without consent of a prosecutor (according to the level of elections). If the appropriate consent is provided, the Chairman of the Investigation Committee of the Russian Federation, the head of the investigation body of the Investigation Committee of the Russian Federation, the prosecutor shall be obliged to notify the election commission that registered the candidate.


(in the version of Federal Law of July 24, 2007, # 214-FZ, of December 28, 2010, # 404-FZ).


5. A candidate shall forfeit the rights and be relieved of the responsibilities associated with the status of a candidate, with the exception of responsibilities referred to in Section 9, Article 59 of this Federal Law, from the time of the official publication of the general data on the election results, or, in the event of an early withdrawal from the elections, on the date of such withdrawal. If the relevant election commission sets, in accordance with the law, a repeat voting, the candidates who are not included in the repeat voting shall forfeit their status on the day for which the election commission sets the repeat voting.


6. In the cease referred to in Section 3, Article 71 of this Federal Law, the candidate who takes the place of a removed candidate, shall acquire the rights and responsibilities associated with the status of a candidate.