Procedure of Nomination of Candidates to the Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and Candidates for Oblast, Rayon, Rayon in City, City, Village and Settlement Councils (of territorial communities with 10,000 or more voters)

1. The nomination of candidates for local councils by a party organization and the formation and approval of the unified and territorial electoral lists of candidates shall be carried out at a party organization’s meeting or conference, pursuant to the procedure prescribed by the party’s charter and this Code.


2. A party organization may nominate as candidate for a local council a person who is either a member of that party or not a member of any party, provided that the person shall have the right to be elected a local council member under Article 193 of this Code.


3. A party organization shall nominate candidates from the among persons specified in Part two of this Article, in the form of a unified electoral list, which shall be formed and approved at the party organization’s meeting or conference.


4. The number of candidates for local council who are included in the unified electoral list of a party organization shall not exceed the number of seats in the Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea or the respective local council.


5. The first candidate in the unified electoral list is determined. From among other candidates included in the unified electoral list, the party organization at the same meeting or conference shall form and approve territorial lists of candidates in each territorial election district. The territorial electoral list of a party organization must include at least five and no more than twelve candidates.


6. Each candidate included in the unified electoral list shall also be included in one of the territorial electoral lists. A candidate may not be included in the unified electoral list of a party organization more than once, and also, he or she may not be included in two or more different territorial electoral lists.


7. A person shall be entitled to express his or her consent to be a candidate and be included in the unified and territorial electoral lists of one party organization only and from one party only.


8. The sequence (ordinal numbers) of candidates in a unified electoral list and in the territorial electoral lists shall be determined at a meeting or conference of the party organization during the nomination of candidates and preparation of the respective lists.


9. When compiling the unified and territorial electoral lists, a party organization shall ensure that both men and women (no less than two candidates of each gender) shall be present in each group of five (places from the first to the fifth, from the sixth to the tenth and so on) candidates in each electoral list.

If the party organization forms unified and territorial electoral lists with the number of candidates, which is not a multiple of five, a requirement is applied whereby the latter in the list of candidates (from 1 to 4) is required, one by one, to be candidates of different genders.

10. The decision of a party organization’s meeting or conference to nominate candidates for local council from the party shall be made by way of approval of both the unified and the territorial electoral lists of candidates, assigned by the party organization to the respective territorial election districts, which shall be appended to such a decision and shall be an integral part thereof. A decision of a party organization’s meeting or conference on the nomination of local council candidates shall be signed by the chair of the party organization and affixed with the seal of the party.

11. The forms of a party organization’s unified and territorial electoral lists of candidates shall be established by the Central Election Commission and cannot be changed during the election process.

12. The unified electoral list shall contain the following information with regard to each candidate:

1) ordinal number of the candidate in the unified electoral list;

2) last name, first name (all first names), patronymic name (if any) of the candidate;

3) day, month and year of birth;

4) citizenship;

5) information on educational background;

6) job position (occupation), place of employment;

7) party membership;

8) address of the place of residence;

9) information on the presence or absence of a criminal record;

10) information on the presence or absence of a representative mandate;

11) the number of the territorial election district, to which the candidate has been assigned (aside from the first candidate);

12) the ordinal number of the candidate in the respective territorial electoral list (aside from the first candidate).

13. Each territorial electoral list shall contain the ordinal number of each candidate in this list, as well as the data indicated in 2-10 of Part 12 of this Article.