Conditions for Registration 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) an application for registration of the candidates, signed by the chair of the party organization and affixed with the party organization’s seal;
2) a decision of the party organization’s meeting or conference on the nomination of candidates, as stipulated by Part ten of Article 219 of this Code, signed by the chair of the local party organization and certified by the seal of the local party organization or the respective party organization and approved by the central governing body certified by the seal of this party (indicating the name of the central governing body of the party and the number and date of the respective decision, which is not attached);
3) the unified electoral list and all territorial electoral lists of candidates nominated by the party organization to the respective multi-member districts, in the forms established by the Central Election Commission, in hard copy, which must contain the information provided for in part ten of Article 220 of this Code, signed by the chair of the party organization and affixed with the seal of the party organization or the respective party organization of the highest level, as well as in electronic form;
4) the party organization’s election program, prepared in the state language, the volume of which is up to 4,000 printed characters, approved by the party organization’s meeting or conference, in a paper form, signed by the chair of the party organization and affixed with the party organization’s seal, as well as in electronic form;
5) a document on making a cash deposit in accordance with Article 225 of this Code;
6) statements of the persons included in the party organization’s electoral list expressing consent to be nominated as that party organization’s candidate, which shall also contain a person’s consent to the publication of his or her biographical information, as well as the acknowledgment of the obligation, in the event of being elected, to lay down a representative mandate (or indicating absence thereof);
7) statements of the persons included in the electoral lists of the republican party organization in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea shall also contain the acknowledgment of the obligation, in the event of being elected as a local council member, to terminate any activities which are incompatible with the mandate of a member of the Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea (or indicating absence thereof), as well as the obligation, in the event of being elected as a local council member, to transfer, within one month from the day of the official promulgation of the election results, to another person, pursuant to the procedure prescribed by the Law, the management of enterprises and corporate rights owned by the candidate (or indicating absence thereof);
8) paper and electronic copies of the application forms of candidates, in a form established by the Central Election Commission, which shall necessarily contain: last name, first name (all first names), and patronymic name (if any), all previous last names, first names, and patronymic name and the dates of change thereof (if a person has changed his or her last name and/or first name (one of the first names or all first names), and/or patronymic name during the last five years prior to the day of voting), the day, month, year and place
of birth, citizenship, information about educational background, job position (occupation), place of employment, party membership, address of place of residence, presence or absence of a representative mandate, telephone number, information on presence or absence of a criminal record, date of filling out the application and the signature of the candidate (to be filled out in printed form);
9) certificates on the presence or absence of a criminal record issued by an authorized body after the start of the election process;
10) a statement of each of the candidates about the presence (absence) of arrears of child support, the amount of which exceeds the amount of the respective payments for six months from the date when an executive document for mandatory enforcement was presented;
11) one photograph on paper sized 4x6 cm, as well as in an electronic format, of each of the candidates;
12) photocopies of the first and second page of each candidate’s passport of a citizen of Ukraine in the form of a passport book or photocopies of the front and reverse page of a passport of a citizen of Ukraine in the form of a card.
Submission of documents to the respective election commission for registration of candidates is carried out by a representative of the party organization authorized by a power of attorney from the party organization.
In case the territorial election commission finds discrepancies between the unified electoral list and the territorial electoral lists of the party organization, provided in hard copy and in electronic form, the paper document shall prevail.
In this case, the documents provided for in part one of this article may be submitted in the form of electronic copies, the authenticity of which is certified by the chair of the respective party organization and/or the respective candidate, taking into account the laws of Ukraine "On electronic documents and electronic document management" and “On electronic trust services."
