Special Requirements for Signatures collecting lists

(1) Signature collecting lists in support of independent candidate are drawn up and verified pursuant to Articles 47 and 48 of this Code, to be correspondingly applied.

(2) To be registered by the Central Electoral Commission, independent candidates shall submit signature collecting lists with at least 2,000 signatures and at most 2,500 signatures of supporters eligible to vote. Notwithstanding this paragraph, a female candidate may be registered is she submits at least 1000 signatures and at most 2500 signatures of supporters eligible to vote.

(3) If upon verification of signatures collecting lists, the Central Electoral Commission detects fake signatures and signatures that appear in several signatures collecting lists, as well as signatures collected with the infringement of Articles 47 and 48, such signatures shall be excluded.

(4) If upon verification the submitted number of signatures is found insufficient, or is found insufficient due to the elimination of invalid signatures as per the minimum threshold provided for in paragraph (2) of this Article, the candidate shall not be registered. A decision to that effect shall be conveyed to the candidate within 24 hours following its adoption.

(5) Upon receiving and registration of necessary documents stipulated in Article 49 by the Central Electoral Commission, it shall not be allowed to an independent candidate to submit supplementary signature collecting lists or to submit the lists repeatedly.