Procedure of nomination of the presidential candidate.

1. The number of presidential candidates shall not be limited. A person who has collected at least 30,000 voter signatures and paid an election deposit of 10,000 specified rates established by law from personal funds or from the funds of his / her election fund to the special account of the Central Election Commission may be registered as a presidential candidate.

2. Nomination of presidential candidates shall start from the day following the day of official publication of the decision on the calling of the elections and shall end 75 calendar days prior to the election day.

3. The right to nominate presidential candidates shall belong to citizens by way of self-nomination as well as to the political parties registered in accordance with the established procedure on the day of official publication of the decision on calling the elections.

The State executive agency authorized to perform functions in the area of state registration of political parties shall make a list of registered political parties and no later than 3 calendar days since the date of entry into force of the decision on calling the elections shall ensure the publication of the list in the sources of official publication of normative legal acts of the Kyrgyz Republic, indicating the head of each political party, its members and within the same period shall send the said list to the Central Election Commission.

4. A political party shall nominate a presidential candidate in accordance with the procedure provided for in its charter, in accordance with the requirements of legislation on political parties and the present constitutional Law. In accordance with the legislation the candidate shall be responsible for the reliability of submitted documents.

A protocol of the decision of a political party to nominate a candidate, together with a statement of consent to run for President, shall be submitted by an authorized representative of the political party to the Central Election Commission in a machine-readable form.

The Central Election Commission shall be obliged to issue a written confirmation (certificate) of receipt to the person who submitted the documents.

The confirmation (certificate) shall be issued immediately upon the submission of the documents.

5. To nominate a presidential candidate, a candidate or the political party that nominated the candidate shall submit to the Central Election Commission the following documents (in printed form in the form determined by the Central Election Commission):

1) statement of the candidate on his / her intention to run for the office of the President by self-nomination;

2) in the event that the candidate is nominated by a political party - minutes of the decision of the political party on the nomination of the candidate, together with the statement of the candidate to run for President from the given political party, as well as notarized copies of the charter of the political party and the certificate of state registration (re-registration) of the political party;

3) a copy of the passport;

4) a certificate provided for in Article 51 of the present constitutional Law;

5) a document:

- on the absence of citizenship of another State;

- on existing criminal records indicating the number(s) and name(s) of the article(s) of the Criminal Code of the Kyrgyz Republic on the basis of which the candidate was convicted, article(s) of the law of a foreign country if the candidate was convicted in accordance with the said legislative acts for the acts recognized as a crime by the acting Criminal Code of the Kyrgyz Republic, or on the absence of a criminal record;

6) written consent to the collection and processing of personal data, including the existence or absence of citizenship of another state (including previous citizenship, other citizenships).

6. A candidate shall be obliged to personally submit to the Central Election Commission the documents stipulated by part 5 of this article, except for cases when he or she is sick, in places of detention for suspected and accused persons (in this case, the authenticity of a candidate’s signature on the application must be notarized or certified in writing by the administration of the in-patient medical and prophylactic institution in which the candidate undergoes treatment or by the administration of the institution in which he or she is being detained as a suspected and accused person). The authority of a person to submit documents at the candidate’s request shall be confirmed by a power of attorney given by the candidate in accordance with legislation on the notary.

Regardless of the nomination procedure a candidate and a political party shall be responsible for the submission of documents for the elections, the completeness and reliability of the information contained therein as well as for the compliance of the execution of the submitted documents approved by the Central Election Commission.

In the event of having detected signs of violation of the legislation, entailing criminal or other responsibility, the Central Election Commission sends to the law enforcement or other authorized agencies or a court relevant documents and materials to establish the fact of violation and to decide on bringing the guilty persons to account.

7. The Central Election Commission after submission of all documents specified in paragraph 5 of this Article shall immediately issue the person who submitted the documents a written confirmation (certificate) of receipt, indicating the date of receipt and the list of submitted documents.

8. In the event that the Central Election Commission finds that the documents of a candidate are incomplete and (or) there are inconsistences, within 48 hours after receiving the documents, the Central Election Commission shall notify the candidate or the political party that nominated the candidate about the detected irregularities. A candidate or a political party shall have the right, within 48 hours since the receipt of the notification, to present necessary documents, amendments and submit the corrected documents to the Central Electoral Commission.

The Central Election Commission shall return the documents to the candidate in the event that within 48 hours the candidate fails to submit the necessary or corrected documents, then the previously issued written confirmation (certificate) shall be considered invalid. The return of documents shall not prevent the re-nomination of a candidate within the period specified in paragraph 2 of this Article.

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