Nominating a candidate for Deputy

1. Political parties shall submit to the Central Electoral Commission the application on running in elections of the National Assembly, upon the decision of their permanently functioning governing body, and the application shall be signed by the head of the political party. Alliances of political parties shall submit to the Central Electoral Commission the application on running in elections of the National Assembly upon decisions of permanently functioning governing bodies of member political parties to the alliance, and the application shall be signed by the heads of member political parties to the alliance.

2. The following shall be attached to the application of a political party (alliance of political parties) on running in elections of the National Assembly:

(1) the charter of the political party (the charters of the political parties included in the alliance);
(2) the decision of the permanently functioning governing body of the political party (decisions of permanently functioning governing bodies of member political parties to the alliance) on approving and nominating national and district electoral lists;
(3) the national and district electoral lists;
(4) the written statements of candidates for Deputy included in electoral lists on their consent for being registered as candidate for Deputy;
(5) the national list presented by each of the political parties included in the alliance of political parties;
(6) the receipt on payment of the electoral deposit in the amount of 10 000-fold of the minimum salary;
(7) a statement of information proving that candidates for Deputy included in the electoral lists have been citizens of the Republic of Armenia only, for the last 4 years, and have been permanently residing in the Republic of Armenia for the last 4 years;

(8) carbon copy of the document, or a statement of information issued by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Armenia, certifying the command of the Armenian language;
(9) carbon copies of personal identification documents of candidates for Deputy included in the electoral lists.

3. The form of the statement of information prescribed by point 7 of part 2 of this Article shall be approved by the Central Electoral Commission. The mentioned statement of information shall be issued by the authorised body within a 3-day period following the request but no earlier than the calling of elections.

The authorised body shall upon its decision refuse to issue a statement of information of the specified form to the applicant, if the data thereon do not meet the requirements of Article 80 of this Code.

4. The statement of information prescribed by point 8 of part 2 of this Article shall be issued by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Armenia within a 1-week period following the request.

5. The application on running in elections of the National Assembly shall also contain data on up to 3 authorised representatives (surname, name, patronymic, date of birth, personal identification document number, place of employment and position (occupation)).

6. Documents necessary for registering the electoral lists of a political party running in elections shall be submitted to the Central Electoral Commission only personally by the authorised representative of the political party (alliance of political parties) within the time limits prescribed by this Code.

7. Where errors, deletions, erasures, misprints are found in the documents submitted for registration of the electoral lists of a political party (alliance of political parties) running in elections, the Central Electoral Commission shall be obliged to bring them to the attention of persons having submitted the documents so as to correct them, as well as correct itself, in their presence, the evident errors and misprints existing in the submitted documents.
The Commission shall have no right not to accept the submitted documents only for the reason that they contain such errors, deletions, erasures, or misprints. The provisions of this part shall not apply to correction of such errors, deletions, erasures, misprints or elimination of other deficiencies found in the documents, the right whereof is reserved by law to the bodies having adopted or issued such documents.

In case the submitted documents contain inaccuracies referred to in the second paragraph of this part or in case of incompleteness of documents attached to the application, the Central Electoral Commission shall give 48 hours for the elimination of the mentioned inaccuracies, completion of the attached documents. In case of failure to eliminate, within that period of time, the inaccuracies regarding the electoral list of a political party (alliance of political parties) running in elections, regarding a candidate included in the electoral list, or in case of failure to complete the documents, the registration of the electoral list of a political party (alliance of political parties) running in elections, a candidate included in the electoral list shall be rejected, and his or her name shall be removed from the electoral list of the political party (alliance of political parties) running in elections as prescribed by the Central Electoral Commission.