Guarantees Relating to the Activities of MP Candidates in the Election Process

1. Unless an MP candidate is the President of Ukraine or a Member of Parliament of Ukraine, he or she may not be denied the opportunity to take a leave of absence without pay from his or her place of employment and to not perform employment-related or official duties during the election campaign.

2. An MP candidate shall not be dismissed from his or her position during the election process on the initiative of the owner of the enterprise, establishment, organization, or a body authorized by the owner or the commander of the military unit (command). An MP candidate shall not be without his or her prior consent transferred to any other place of employment, sent on a business trip, or called up for military or alternative (non-military) service, training (test) or special assemblies of persons liable to call-up.

3. An MP candidate in a single-mandate election district shall be entitled to appoint his or her authorized persons from among the voters (not more than three persons).

4. The authorized persons of an MP candidate in a single-mandate election district shall be registered by the Central Election Commission upon an application filed by the candidate. Such an application shall contain the following data: last name, first name, patronymic of the authorized person, his or her citizenship, day, month and year of birth, place of employment, position (occupation), address of residence, and telephone number. The application shall be appended with a written consent of the person to represent the interests of the MP candidate and with photocopies of the first and second pages of his or her passport of citizen of Ukraine or a photocopy of his or her temporary certificate of citizen of Ukraine (for persons who have recently been granted Ukrainian citizenship). Within three days after the receipt of such application the district election commission shall register the candidate’s authorized persons and issue to them identification documents of a form specified by the Central Election Commission.

5. It shall not be allowed to register any of the persons specified in the second sentence of Part 2 Article 75 of this Law as MP candidates’ authorized persons.

6. The authorized persons of an MP candidate in a single-mandate election district shall facilitate the candidate in conducting the election process; represent the candidate’s interests in his or her relations with election commissions, state executive bodies, state bodies of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and local self-government bodies, mass media, civic associations, and voters; and exercise other powers specified by this Law.

7. The authorized persons of an MP candidate in a single-mandate district shall acquire their powers from the day of their registration by the Central Election Commission. The powers of these persons shall be terminated on the day when the decision to register the MP candidate in the single-mandate district is canceled or when he results of the election are established and officially made public.

8. The authorized persons of an MP candidate in a single-mandate district shall, from the date of his or her registration for the entire period of the election process, have the right to take a leave of absence without pay and not to perform his or her employment-related or official duties upon agreement with the owner of the enterprise, establishment, organization, or a body authorized by the owner.

9. An MP candidate in a single-mandate district shall have the right at any time prior to the day of voting to file an application with the Central Election Commission seeking the termination of the powers of his or her authorized person and to present the documents required for the registration of another person under the procedure established by this Law.

10. An authorized person of an MP candidate in a single-mandate district shall have the right at any time to submit to the Central Election Commission an application for resignation.

11. On the basis of an application submitted in compliance with Parts 9 or 10 of this Article, no later than on the third day following its receipt, or immediately in case the application is submitted on the day preceding the day of voting or on the day of voting, the Central Election Commission shall adopt a decision canceling the registration of the authorized person of a candidate in a single-mandate election district; a copy of that decision shall be immediately issued or sent to the MP candidate.

12. The identification document of an authorized person of an MP candidate in a singlemandate election district whose powers were terminated prior to the end of the election process shall be immediately returned to the Central Election Commission. 13. An MP candidate and his or her authorized person shall have the rights of an authorized person of a party provided for by clauses 1, 4, 5 Part 14 Article 75 of this Law.