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Article 58.
 

Procedure for Registration of MP Candidates in the Nationwide Election District


1. MP candidates included in the electoral list of a party shall be registered by the Central Election Commission on condition of submission of the documents specified in Article 54 of this Law.


2. The documents for registration of the MP candidates shall be submitted to the Central Election Commission no later than seventy-five days prior to the day of voting.


3. Should a person included in the electoral list of a party fail to submit a statement of consent to be nominated as an MP candidate for that party, he or she shall be deemed excluded from the electoral list of the party as of the day of submission of a party’s application in accordance with clause 1 of Part one of Article 54 of this Law. A statement of consent submitted after submission of the aforementioned party’s application for registration of the MP candidates shall not be accepted.


4. A person included in a party’s electoral list shall have the right to withdraw his or her consent to be nominated as an MP candidate prior to the day of registration. Such a person shall be deemed excluded from the electoral list of a party from the moment of the receipt by the Central Election Commission of a statement of withdrawal. The Central Election Commission shall notify the party in writing of the receipt of such a statement no later than on the day following the day on which it received the statement of withdrawal. A statement of consent submitted by a person who has previously withdrawn consent to be nominated as an MP candidate by the same party shall not be accepted.


5. A person who has submitted statements of consent to be included in the electoral lists of more than one party shall be excluded by a decision of the Central Election Commission from all the electoral lists in which he or she was included.


6. No later than on the fifth day following the day of the receipt of an application for registration of MP candidates included in the electoral list of a party and the other required documents attached thereto, the Central Election Commission shall adopt a decision either registering the MP candidates or refusing their registration.


7. The list and priority of MP candidates in the electoral list determined by a party shall not be changed after the submission of the documents for registration to the Central Election Commission.


8. In the event of registration of MP candidates, the party’s representative in the Central Election Commission shall be presented, within three days after the day of adoption of the decision on registration of the MP candidates, with the MP candidate registration documents, issued in a form approved by the Central Election Commission, together with a copy of the aforementioned decision. The party’s electoral list of MP candidates shall be published, together with the decision on their registration, within the same time framework, in the newspapers Holos Ukrainy and Uriadovyi Courier as well as on the official website of the Central Election Commission.