Registration of Candidates

(1) To register the candidates, no later than 30 days before the date of elections, the Central Electoral Commission or the District Electoral Councils shall be provide with the following documents:

a) Protocols of meetings held by the political party central or territorial body, by other socio-political organisations, or by the electoral bloc to nominate the candidate (list of candidates prepared as per the provisions of Articles 85, 86 and 137);

b) Signatures collecting lists with a sufficient number of signatures in support of independent candidates ;

c) Candidate’s biographical data;

d) Candidate’s statement accepting to run for the position he/she was nominated for, including the personal responsibility statement on having no legal/judicial constraints to stand as candidate;

e) Candidate’s statement of wealth and personal interests for the last two years preceding the year of elections as per the Law on disclosure of wealth and private interests;

f) A declaration of personal responsability on:

-  non-existence of legal/judicial constraints to stand as candidate or to hold a public office;

-  non-existence of acts of final findings regarding the disclosure of wealth and private interests, incompatibility statuses and seizure of unjustified wealth, acts that are not prescribed;

Attention!

Art. VI. of Law 113/2019 - If the mandate of a MP elected in a single member constituency is declared vacant with at least 180 days until the expiry of the mandate of the Parliament of the X legislature, partial parlementary elections shall be organized, which will be held in accordance with the legislation in force until the date of adoption of this law, except for the legal provisions on the obligation to present certtificates of integrity, regarding the electoral campaign and the voter identification documents, which will be regulated by the law in force, applied accordingly. 

g) Health certificate of the candidate for the position of President of the Republic of Moldova issued by the medical institution that holds relevant records on the respective candidate;

h) Candidate’s declaration for mayor’s position on suspending any activity incompatible with that position for the duration of the mayor’s term of office, if that person has been elected and his/her mandate was validated;

i) statement on suspending from the previously held position for the electoral campaign period – for the persons falling within the provisions of Article 13(3);

j) the electoral symbol in electronic and hardcopy formats;

k) copy of the candidate’s ID.

(2) Representatives of political parties and of other socio-political organisations, electoral blocs and independent candidates shall submit the documents for registration only after the Central Electoral Commission or respective District Electoral Councils made public the venue (office) and time for documents acceptance. This information shall be made public within 2 days after the launch of candidates’ nomination period. The time between the adoption of a decision concerning the venue and time for receiving the documents, and the established time for document acceptance shall not be less than 24 hours. If representatives of several political parties, socio-political organisations, political blocs and independent candidates submit all the required documents for registration at the same time, the order of receiving them shall be established by random drawing in accordance with the regulations approved by the Central Electoral Commission and published in the Official Gazette of the Republic of Moldova.

(3) The respective election body shall either register or refuse to register the candidates for elections within 7 days after the date of receiving the documents referred to in paragraph (1).

(4) Within the same elections, a person may run for several eligible positions only on behalf of one political party or one electoral bloc.

(5) The candidates nominated for elections may not be either employed during those elections or involved in any activity carried out by any District Electoral Council or Precinct Electoral Bureau.

(6) As soon as possible, the respective election body shall issue a certificate to registered candidates, but no later than in 3 days from the day of their registration.

(7) The respective election body shall make public its decisions on registering the independent candidates or the lists of candidates in Media financed out of budget resources.

(8) Upon expiration of the term for candidates’ registration, the respective election body shall publish the final list of registered candidates, providing their full name, year of birth, domicile, political affiliation, profession (occupation), and the name of the party, socio-political organisation, or of the electoral bloc that nominated them. The lists of candidates shall be made available for consultation at each polling station.

(9) If an electoral contestant presents the list of candidates nominated for elections that do not correspond to the requirements of Art.46(3), the Central Election Commission or the District Electoral Council will refuse its registration.