Conditions for Registration of Candidates to village, Settlement and City Council (of territorial communities with up to 10,000 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, or, in the case of absence thereof, with the seal of a higher-level party organization;
2) a decision of the party organization’s meeting or conference specified in Part eight of Article 220 of this Code on the nomination of candidates from the party organization and the approved list of candidates to the respective council specified in Part two of Article 220 of this Code, which shall be appended to such a decision and shall be an integral part thereof, in a form established by the Central Election Commission, in paper form, which shall necessarily include the information provided by Part ten of Article 220 of this Code, signed by the party organization’s chair and affixed with the party organization’s seal, as well as in electronic form;
3) statements of the persons included in the party organization’s list of candidates to the respective council expressing consent to be nominated as that party organization’s candidate (including in the respective multi-member election district), which shall also contain a person’s consent to the publication of his or her biographical information and the processing of the candidate’s personal data, as well as the acknowledgment of the obligation in case of election to lay down another representative mandate (in the absence of a mandate – to indicate its absence);
4) a document on making a cash deposit in accordance with Article 225 of this Code;
5) 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 his or her nomination as a candidate), the day, month, year and place of birth, citizenship, the 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 a signature of a candidate (to be filled out in printed form);
6) one photograph on paper sized 4x6 cm, and in an electronic format, of each of the candidates;
7) 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.
Should village, settlement or city election commission find discrepancies between the party organization’s list of candidates to the respective council provided in both hard copy and electronic form, the paper copy shall prevail.
The documents to the respective election commission for registration of candidates nominated by the party organization in multi-member election districts shall be submitted by a party organization’s representative authorized by a power of attorney issued by the party organization.
The territorial election commission shall issue to a party organization’s representative authorized by a power of attorney issued thereby, who has submitted documents provided for by this Part of this Article, a certificate confirming the receipt of such documents, with the indication of the date and time of the receipt of the documents, as well as the list thereof.
The territorial election commission shall issue a certificate to the candidate who submitted documents on self-nomination, indicating the date and time of acceptance of the documents and the list of accepted documents.
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."
If the Central Election Commission decides to use electronic services for registration of candidates, the provisions of part two of this article on the personal presentation of the document provided for in part one of Article 8 of this Code shall not apply to a candidate running by self-nomination. In this case, the documents provided for in paragraphs 4-7 of part one and part two of this article shall be signed (certified) by the respective candidate taking into account the requirements of the laws of Ukraine "On electronic documents and electronic document management" and "On electronic trust services."
