The procedure of Nomination of Candidates for Village, Settlement and City Mayor

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


2. The nomination of candidates for village, settlement or city mayor in a unified singlemember election district by a party organization shall be conducted 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 candidate for village, settlement or city mayor a person who is a member of that party or not a member of any party, provided that the person has the right to be elected under Article 193 of this Code.


4. Nomination of a candidate for village, settlement or city mayor from a party organization is done by adopting a decision of the party organization’s conference or meeting. In the event a party organization’s conference or meeting nominates candidates for the position of village, settlement or city mayors in more than one village, settlement or city territorial community, a decision with regard to each candidate shall be adopted separately.

The decision of a party organization’s meeting or conference on the nomination of candidates for village, settlement or city mayor 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.

5. The decision of a party organization’s meeting or conference shall contain the following information with regard to a candidate nominated as village, settlement or city mayor:

1) last name, first name (all first names), patronymic name (if any) of a candidate;

2) day, month and year of birth;

3) citizenship;

4) information on educational background;

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

6) party membership;

7) address of place of residence;

8) information on the presence or absence of a criminal record; 9)information on the presence or absence of a representative mandate; 10)the date of adoption of such a decision.

6. A citizen of Ukraine who, in accordance with Article 193 of this Code, has the right to be a candidate in local elections, may self-nominate as a candidate for the position of village, settlement or city mayor by submitting an application for self-nomination to the respective territorial election commission.

The application for self-nomination shall be accompanied by the documents provided for in part two of Article 224 of this Code.

7. A person may run as a candidate for the position of only one village, settlement or city mayor from a party organization or by way of self-nomination.