Procedure of Registration of Candidates to the Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Candidates for Oblast, Rayon, Rayon in City, City, Village and Settlement Councils (of territorial communities with 10,000 or more voters)
Candidates included in a party organization’s unified electoral list and territorial electoral lists shall be registered by the Election Commission of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, or by oblast, rayon, rayon in city, city, village or settlement election commissions upon receipt by the respective election commission of the documents provided for by Article 222 of this Code.
The submission of documents to the respective election commission for registration of candidates shall end thirty days prior to the date of voting.
Should a person included in a party organization’s unified electoral list and the respective territorial electoral lists fail to submit, as of the day the party organization filed the application on the registration of candidates to the Election Commission of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, or to the oblast, rayon, rayon in city, city, village or settlement election commission, a statement of consent to be nominated as a candidate from this party organization, he or she shall be deemed excluded from the party organization’s electoral list (electoral lists) as of the day of submission of the party organization’s application. A statement of consent submitted by such a person after the submission of the aforementioned party organization’s application for registration of candidates shall not be accepted.
A person included in a party organization’s unified electoral list and territorial electoral lists may withdraw his or her statement of consent to be nominated as that party organization’s candidate prior to the day of registration of him or her as a candidate. Such person shall, in person, file to the Election Commission of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, or to oblast, rayon, rayon in city, city, village or settlement election commissions, an application on withdrawal of his or her statement of consent to be nominated as a candidate from the respective party organization notarized pursuant to the procedure established by the Law of Ukraine “On Notariate”. Such person shall be deemed excluded from the party organization’s unified electoral list and respective territorial electoral lists as of the moment of receipt by the Election Commission of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, oblast, rayon, rayon in city, city, village or settlement election commission of the statement of withdrawal of his or her consent to be nominated as a candidate from that party organization. The respective election commission shall notify the party organization that nominated the candidate in writing of the receipt of a statement of withdrawal no later than on the day following the day of the receipt of the statement of withdrawal. A statement of consent submitted by a person who has previously withdrawn consent to be nominated as a candidate by a party organization shall not be accepted.
If it becomes known that a person has been included in the electoral lists of several party organizations, an authorized representative of the election commission shall, no later than on the next day following the day when such information has become known, address the said person with a demand to file, in person, with the election commission a statement on the confirmation of his or her consent to be nominated as candidate only from one party organization, which shall be notarized pursuant to the procedure established by the Law of Ukraine “About Notariate”.
Should a person file a statement on the confirmation of his or her consent to be nominated as a candidate from the respective party organization, such person shall be deemed excluded from the unified electoral list and the respective regional electoral lists of other party organizations.
Should a person fail to submit a statement confirming his or her consent to be nominated as a candidate from the respective party organization within two days following the day of receipt of the respective address, such person shall be excluded by a decision of the respective territorial election commission from the electoral lists of all party organizations in which he or she has been included.
Within five days of the receipt of the party organization’s application on registration of candidates and the documents appended thereto, the territorial election commission shall make a decision on registration of candidates, or on refusal to register candidates.
The list and sequence of candidates in the unified electoral list, as well as the list of candidates in each territorial electoral list, determined by the party organization, may not be changed after the documents for candidate registration have been filed with the territorial election commission. The order of candidates in the regional electoral list may be changed only based on the results of the vote of voters under conditions and in accordance with the procedure specified by Parts one and two of Article 259 of this Code.
In the event of registration of candidates, the party organization’s representative in the territorial election commission shall be presented with a copy of the resolution on the candidates’ registration no later than within three days after the adoption together with candidate certificates in a form established by the Central Election Commission. The decision on registration of candidates shall be posted within three days from the date of its adoption by the respective election commission on its official website (if available), websites of respective local councils (if available) or in another manner determined by these commissions and/or on a stand for official materials of the commission. Information on registration of candidates for local council in the unified election district with an indication of the subject of nomination, ordinal number of the candidate, surname, first name (all first names), patronymic name (if any), date, month, year of birth, information on citizenship, education, party affiliation, position, place of work (occupation), place of residence, presence (absence) of arrears of child support, the total amount of which exceeds the amount of the respective payments for six months from the date the executive document for enforcement was presented, the number of the territorial election district to which the candidates belong, and the ordinal number of candidates in the respective territorial electoral list for each candidate (except for the first candidate) shall be submitted for publication on the official website of the Central Election Commission in accordance with a procedure established by it.
