Trustees of the candidates or political parties which nominated the lists of candidates

1. Candidates and political parties shall have the right to appoint a trustee.

2. The registration of trustees shall be carried out by the Central Election Commission on the basis of a written application of a candidate or representation of a political party and a statement of the citizen’s consent to be a trustee. The Central Election Commission issues a standard certificate to the trustee.

3. Deputies of the Jogorku Kenesh, local keneshes, candidates for deputies of the Jogorku Kenesh, local keneshes, persons taking political, special state and political municipal posts, civil and municipal servants, members of election commissions, judges, employees of law enforcement and fiscal bodies, foreign citizens and persons without citizenship cannot be trustees.

4. Trustees shall act within the powers granted to them by the candidates or political parties.

5. The trustees shall have the right:

1) to carry out campaigning and other activities that promote the election of candidates (the list of candidates), to present their electoral programs;

2) to speak at pre-election meetings, meetings with voters, to participate in pre-election debates and discussions;

3) to be present at the meetings of election commissions;

4) to be present at the polling stations during voting, vote counting and summing up of the voting results;

5) to get acquainted with the documents of the election commissions, as well as with the protocols on the results of voting and the election returns;

6) to appeal against the decisions and actions (inaction) of election commissions and be present during the consideration of complaints and applications.

6. The trustees shall not have the right:

1) to interfere in the work of election commissions;

2) to sign for a voter at his / her request in receiving ballot papers as well as fill in ballot paper for a voter;

3) to conduct information TV and radio programs (broadcasts), to participate in election coverage through mass media in the event that they are journalists, creative workers or officials of the editorial offices of these mass media.

7. Candidates and political parties have the right to withdraw their trustees at any time by notifying the Central Election Commission, which will cancel the certificates issued to them. The trustee has the right to resign at any time on his / her own initiative by returning the certificate issued to it to the Central Election Commission and by notifying the political party that appointed him / her.

8. The powers of the trustee shall terminate with the loss of the status by the registered candidates who appointed the trustee or by the candidates included in the list of candidates nominated by a political party.

(In the version of the constitutional Law of the Kyrgyz Republic No 116 dated August 8, 2019)