Electoral registration of party lists
1. A party list shall be registered by an ordinance of the CEC Chairperson if all documents defined in this Law comply with the requirements established by the same Law. If the time limit set under this Law for submission of documents is not met, the issue o electoral registration shall not be reviewed.
2. An appropriate office of the CEC shall verify the party list submitted by a party, and shall, within 10 days after the list is submitted but not later than the 26th day before Election Day, submit its report to the CEC Chairperson, who shall, within 3 days but not later than the 25th day before Election Day:
a) register the party list and the candidates nominated by a party if the submitted party list and the documents attached thereto comply with the requirements established by this Law;
b) give a written notice to a party representative of any noncompliance of the data in the party list and the documents attached thereto with the requirements established by this Law (specifying the noncompliance), if such noncompliance exists, and the representative shall be allowed 3 days to improve the list and the documents.
3. The corrected data referred to in paragraph 2(b) of this article shall be verified and the issue of electoral registration shall be resolved within 5 days after submission of the corrected data but not later than the 20th day before Election Day. If the corrected data complies with the requirements of this Law, the CEC Chairperson shall register the party list or the part of the list that complies with the requirements defined by this Law (if the number of candidates in that part is not less than the required minimum). The CEC Chairperson shall, within the same time limit, issue an ordinance regarding the refusal of electoral registration for other candidates (the ordinance shall specify the reasons for the refusal to provide electoral registration and the applicable provisions of this Law that are the basis for refusal). If in the part of the party list that complies with the requirements established by this Law the number of candidates remains less than the required minimum, neither the party list nor the candidates nominated by the party shall be registered and the CEC Chairperson shall, within the aforementioned time limit, issue an ordinance on refusing registration to them (the ordinance shall specify exactly the reasons for the refusal to provide electoral registration and the applicable provisions of this Law that are the basis for refusal). The ordinance referred to in this paragraph shall immediately be communicated to a representative of the party and shall be forwarded to him/her upon request.
4. The electoral registration shall be denied to a candidate for MP of Georgia, and either an ordinance of the respective election commission chairperson (in the cases referred to in subparagraphs (a-d) and (f) of this paragraph) or a court decision (in the case referred to in subparagraph (e) of this paragraph) shall cancel the electoral registration of any registered candidate, if the applications and documents submitted to the election commission fail to comply with all requirements established by this Law, or if other conditions defined in the same Law are not met, namely, when:
a) the data referred to in applications and documents is incomplete or inaccurate;
b) the candidate entered in the party list is a member of another party running in the elections;
c) the candidate is entered in more than one party list and he/she gives or gave his/her consent to be entered simultaneously into more than one party list;
d) the other election is held during the parliamentary election of Georgia and the candidate for MP of Georgia gives or gave his/her consent to run in that election with the status of a candidate;
e) the requirements defined in Article 47(1) and/or Article 48 are not met;
f) a candidate did not take a drug test.
5. An ordinance of the CEC chairperson on refusing electoral registration of a party list and candidates for MP of Georgia nominated by a party may be appealed under the procedure established in Articles 77 and 78 of this Law.
Organic Law of Georgia No 6723 of 2 July 2020 – website, 3.7.2020
Organic Law of Georgia No 7097 of 3 September 2020 – website, 4.9.2020
Organic Law of Georgia No 3266 of 21 July 2018 – website, 13.8.2018
