Submission of party lists

1. In order to run in the elections of a municipality representative body Sakrebulo under the proportional electoral system, parties running in the elections shall submit the party lists to the appropriate DEC chairperson after the registration, not later than 30 days before the polling day.

2. Each party running in elections shall have the right to submit one party list.

3. Number of Sakrebulo candidates in the presented party list shall not be less than the number of members to be elected under the proportional system and shall not exceed triple that number.

4. A party list may only include a member of the given party or a person who is not a member of another party running in the elections.

5. The procedure for compiling party lists shall be defined by the parties. When compiling a party list, it shall be considered that the seats obtained by a party on the basis of the election results are distributed in succession, starting from the top of the list, and that maintaining gender balance is connected to the additional funding under the Organic Law of Georgia on Political Associations of Citizens.

6. The party list shall provide the following data for each candidate:

a) first and last names;

b) date of birth;

c) occupation;

d) position (activity);

e) place of work (if unemployed, indicate ‘unemployed’);

f) party affiliation (in the case of being a party member; and if not, indicate ‘nonpartisan’);

g) personal number of a citizen of Georgia;

h) place of registration;

i) if nominated in the local majoritarian electoral district – the name and number of the district;

j) if nominated as a candidate for the Mayor of the same municipality (except for Tbilisi municipality) – the name and number of the respective district.

7. A party list shall be certified by the signature of the leader of a party running in the elections.

8. The party list shall be accompanied by a photocopy of each candidate’s identity card of a citizen of Georgia or of the passport of a citizen of Georgia, a certificate on the deprivation of the right, 2 photos and 2 copies of a registration card signed by him/her, indicating the date of its completion. Along with the candidate’s personal data (the first name, last name, personal number of a citizen of Georgia, address (according to the identity card of a citizen of Georgia or the Agency’s database), date of birth), the registration card shall include the fact of the candidate’s residence in Georgia for 5 years and his/her consent to run in the elections under this party list.

9. For the elections of a municipality representative body Sakrebulo, an appropriate DEC shall forward registration cards to a party representative in advance. Immediately after the documents are received, the party representative shall be given a note with the date on it acknowledging the receipt of the documents.

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