The procedure for Nomination of Candidates to Village, Settlement and City Council (of a territorial community with up to 10,000 voters)

1. 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 voters through local party organizations, or through self-nomination, in accordance with the procedure specified by this Code.

A person may be nominated as a candidate for local council only by one local political party organization or only through self-nomination.

2. The nomination of candidates by a party organization in each multi-member election district shall be conducted by the party organization at its conference or meeting, pursuant to the procedure prescribed by the party’s charter and this Article.


3. A party organization may nominate as a 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.


4. A party organization shall nominate candidates from among persons specified in Part three of this Article, in the form of a list of candidates to the respective council (indicating the number of the multi-member district in which each candidate is nominated), which shall be formed and approved at a party organization’s conference or meeting.


5. The number of candidates for the local council, which are included in the list of candidates for the respective council in each multi-member election district shall not exceed the number of seats to be distributed in the respective multi-member election district.


6. A person may be nominated as a candidate in the respective local election only from one local party organization (unless he or she is running through self-nomination).


7. When compiling a list of candidates to the respective council, a party organization shall ensure the representation of no less than 30 percent of persons of each gender, in the total number of candidates for the respective council.


8. A decision of a party organization’s conference or meeting to nominate candidates from the party organization shall be made by way of approval of a list of candidates to the respective council (indicating the number of the multi-member district in which each candidate is nominated), which shall be appended to such a decision and shall form an integral part thereof. The decision of a party organization’s meeting or conference on the nomination of candidates shall be signed by the chair of the party organization and affixed with the party organization’s seal, or, in the case of absence thereof, with the seal of a higher-level party organization.


9. The form of a party organization’s list of candidates to the respective council shall be established by the Central Election Commission and cannot be changed during the election process.


10. The list of candidates to the respective council shall contain the following information with regard to each candidate:

1) the ordinal number of the multi-member district in which candidate is nominated;

2) last name, first name (all first names), patronymic name (if any) of a 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 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.

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

11) repealed

The documents provided for in part two of Article 223 of this Code shall be attached to the application for self-nomination.

A person may be nominated as a candidate by self-nomination in only one election district.