Status of proxy

1. Political parties running in elections — after registering the electoral lists, and candidates, after having registered — may have proxies for the purpose of protecting their interests in electoral commissions, in their relations with state and local self-government bodies, organisations, mass media. Only persons having the right of suffrage may act as a proxy.

2. After registration of candidates for head of community and member of council of elders (except for members of the Councils of Elders of Yerevan, Gyumri and Vanadzor), electoral lists of political parties running in elections, the electoral commission making the registration shall within a 5-day period provide the candidate, authorised representative of the political party running in elections with proxy certificates equal to the 3-fold of the number of the formed electoral precincts. The relevant commission shall indicate in the certificate the name of the political party running in elections, the name, patronymic, surname of the candidate for head of community, member of council of elders. The candidate or his or her authorised representative or the authorised representative of the political party running in elections shall complete the certificates and provide them to proxies.

3. Judges, prosecutors, officers of the Investigative Committee, officers of investigative bodies, officers of the Police, National Security Service, Judicial Acts Compulsory Enforcement Service, officers of Penitentiary Service, officers of Probation Service, Rescue Service, military servants, observers, candidates, members of electoral commissions may not act as a proxy.

(Article 33 amended, supplemented by HO-318-N of 4 May 2018)