General Procedure for Nominating Candidates for Local Council and Candidates for Village, Settlement and City Mayor

1. The nomination of candidates for village, settlement or city mayor shall begin forty days prior to the day of voting and shall end thirty days prior to the day of voting.


2. The right to nominate candidates to the Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomous Republic of

Crimea, and to oblast, rayon, rayon in city councils, as well as city, village and settlement councils (of territorial communities with up to 10,000 voters) shall be exercised by voters through the local party organizations (hereinafter, a party organization) in accordance with the procedure specified by this Code.

The right to nominate candidates to village, settlement or city council (of a territorial community with up to 10,000 voters) shall be exercised by the voters through the party organizations or through self-nomination in accordance with the procedure specified by this Code.

The right to nominate candidates for village, settlement or city mayor shall be exercised by voters through the party organizations or through self-nomination, in accordance with the procedure specified by this Code.

3. A party organization shall be entitled to nominate candidates in the respective election under the condition that the respective party organization has been registered pursuant to the procedure prescribed by the Law. A party organization shall not be entitled to the status of an electoral subject if a central executive power body that implements the state policy in the area of state registration of legal entities, registration (legalization) of public associations, civic unions or other civic formations, has made a decision declaring, in accordance with the procedure established by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, the party organization’s or the party’s activities, name and/or symbols as such that fail to comply with the requirements of the Law of Ukraine “On Condemnation of Communist and National Socialist (Nazi) Totalitarian Regimes in Ukraine and Prohibition of their Symbols.”

4. A person may be nominated as a candidate in a multi-member district at no more than two levels of local councils.

A person nominated as a candidate for the position of village, settlement or city mayor may not at the same time be nominated in any other unified single-member election district for any local elections.

A person nominated as a candidate for the position of village, settlement or city mayor (of a city with up to 75,000 voters) may at the same time be nominated as a candidate in a multi-member election district to the respective village, settlement city council and/or to the respective oblast council.

A person nominated as a candidate for mayor (of a city with 75,000 or more voters) may at the same time be nominated as a candidate in a multi-member election district only to the respective city council.

5.A person, subject to the requirements of part four of this article, may simultaneously be nominated as candidate for local councils and candidate for the position of village, settlement or city mayor if nominated by the local organization of one political party only, or by self-nomination only.