Refusal to Register a Candidate (Candidates) for Membership of Local Council and Candidates for Village, Settlement and City Mayor
1) a violation of the procedure for nomination of candidates established by this Code, including exceeding the number of candidates established by this Code in the unified republican electoral list of candidates to the Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, candidates for an oblast, rayon, rayons in city, city, village or settlement council (of territorial communities with 10,000 or more voters) or candidates to village, settlement or city councils (of territorial communities with up to 10,000 voters) which may be nominated by party organizations;
2) absence of at least one of the documents specified in clauses 1 to 5 of Part one of Article 222 of this Code, clauses 1, 2 and 4 of Part one of Article 223, or non-compliance of such documents with the requirements of this Code (including the amount of the financial deposit);
3) discovery thereby of the presence of statements in the party organization’s election program aimed at the liquidation of Ukraine’s independence, forcibly overthrow of the constitutional order, breach of sovereignty and territorial integrity of the state, undermining its security, illegal seizure of state power, the propaganda of war, violence, incitement to inter-ethnic, racial, religious enmity, or encroachment on human rights, liberties and public health;
4) the nomination of candidates by a party organization that promotes communist and/or National Socialist (Nazi) totalitarian regimes and their symbols, with regard to which the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has made a decision declaring the party organization’s activities, name and/or symbols as such that fail to comply with the requirements of the Law of Ukraine “On Condemnation of Communist and National Socialist (Nazi) Totalitarian Regimes in Ukraine and Prohibition of their Symbols.”
1) absence of at least one of the documents with regard to a candidate for a local council or a candidate for village, settlement or city mayor specified in clauses 5-12 of the Part one of Article 222, clauses 3-7 of the Part one of Article 223, part one of Article 224 of this Code, or non-compliance of such documents with the requirements of this Code (including the amount of the financial deposit);
a)violation of the procedure for nominating a specific candidate to local council or a candidate for the position of village, settlement or city mayor, established by Articles 216-221 of this Code, including the prohibition of simultaneous nomination;
2) receipt of information from a competent authority that confirms the fact of termination of citizenship of Ukraine of a local council candidate or a candidate for village, settlement or city mayor;
3) information is received from a competent authority that confirms the fact of departure of a local council candidate or a candidate for village, settlement or city mayor abroad for permanent residence;
4) it receives from a court a duly certified copy of a court decision declaring a candidate for local council or a candidate for village, settlement or city mayor incapacitated;
5) a person nominated as a candidate for local council or candidate for the position of village, settlement or city mayor has a criminal record for a grave or especially grave crime, a criminal offense against electoral rights of citizens or corruption crime, if this conviction is not lifted or expunged pursuant to the procedure established by the law;
6) it discovers other circumstances depriving a person nominated as a candidate for local council or a candidate for village, settlement or city mayor of the right to be elected.
In the absence of information submitted for registration, which must be specified in accordance with the requirements of this Code, the respective subject of submission of the documents shall be notified immediately.
Deficiencies identified in the submitted documents may be eliminated by submitting no later than the next day after receipt of the said notification updated or other documents for registration of candidates for local council or candidates for the position of village, settlement or city mayor.
If the updated or other documents are not received within this period, the respective documents are considered missing.
4. A decision on refusal to register a candidate for local council (candidates for local council) or a candidate for village, settlement or city mayor shall contain an exhaustive list of grounds for such a refusal. A copy of such decision shall no later than the next day following the day of the adoption thereof be issued (sent) to a party organization’s representative (in the event of nomination of such person by a party organization) and to the candidate for local council or the candidate for village, settlement or city mayor (in the case of self-nomination).
