MP candidates included in the party’s nationwide or nationwide and regional electoral lists and regional electoral lists shall be registered by the Central Election Commission upon receipt of the documents specified in Article 155 of this Code.
The submission of documents to the Central Election Commission for registration of MP candidates shall end forty days prior to the date of voting.
Should a person included in the party’s nationwide or nationwide and regional electoral lists fail to submit a statement of consent to be nominated as an MP candidate for that party, he or she shall be deemed excluded from the party’s nationwide or nationwide and regional electoral lists as of the day of submission of a party’s application. A statement of consent submitted after submission of the aforementioned party’s application for registration of the MP candidates shall not be accepted.
A person included in the party’s nationwide or nationwide and regional electoral lists may withdraw his or her statement of consent prior to the day of registration. Such person shall, in person, file with the Central Election Commission, an application on withdrawal of his or her statement of consent to be nominated as an MP candidate from the respective party. Such person shall be deemed excluded from the party’s nationwide or nationwide and regional electoral lists as of the moment of receipt by the Central Election Commission of the statement of withdrawal of his or her consent to be nominated as an MP candidate from this party. The Central Election Commission shall notify the party that nominated the MP candidate in writing of the receipt of a statement of withdrawal no later than on the day following the day of the receipt of the statement of withdrawal. A statement of consent submitted by a person who has previously withdrawn consent to be nominated as an MP candidate by the party shall not be accepted.
If it becomes known that a person has been included in the electoral lists of several parties, the authorized representative of the Central Election Commission shall, no later than on the next day following the day when such information has become known, address the said person with the requirement to file, in person, with the Central Election Commission a statement on confirmation of his or her consent to be nominated as an MP candidate only from one party, which shall be notarized pursuant to the procedure established by the Law of Ukraine “On Notaries”.
Should a person file a statement on confirmation of his or her consent to be nominated as an MP candidate from the respective party, such person shall be excluded from the nationwide and respective regional electoral lists of other parties.
Should a person fail to submit a statement on confirmation of his or her consent to be nominated as an MP candidate from the respective party within two days following the day of receipt of the respective address, such person shall be excluded by a decision of the Central Election Commission from electoral lists of all parties in which he or she has been included.
Within five days of the receipt of the party’s application on registration of MP candidates, provided for in this Article, and the documents appended thereto, the Central Election Commission shall make a decision on registration of MP candidates, or on refusal to register MP candidates based on the results of verification of the presence or absence of grounds for decision on registration, or a decision on refusal to register an MP candidate. The registration of MP candidates ends thirty-five days before the day of voting.
The list and sequence of MP candidates in the nationwide electoral list, as well as the list of MP candidates in each regional electoral list, determined by the party, may not be changed after the documents for MP candidate’s registration have been filed with the Central Election Commission. The order of MP candidates in the regional electoral list may be changed only based on the voting results under conditions and in accordance with the procedure specified by Parts one and two of Article 185 this Code.
In the event of registration of MP candidates, the party’s representative in the Central Election Commission shall be presented with a copy resolution on the MP candidates’ registration, no later than within three days after the adoption of the decision on MP candidates’ registration, together with identity cards of MP candidates in a form established by the Central Election Commission. Within the same time period, a decision on the registration of MP candidates shall be published on the official website of the Central Election Commission.
