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Article 1
 

The main grounds of local elections

1. Elections of deputies of village, settlement, city, rayon-in-city, rayon, oblast radas (hereinafter referred to as deputies of local radas), as well as of village, settlement, city chairmen are free and shall be carried out on the basis of universal, equal and direct suffrage, guaranteed by the Constitution of Ukraine and this Law, by secret ballot. Deputies of local radas and village, settlement, and city chairmen shall be elected for the term of four years.

2. The electoral process shall be carried out on the basis of: free and equal nomination of candidates; equal opportunities for all candidates in the conduct of election campaign; impartiality of bodies of state power, bodies of local self-government and of authoritative and public officials of these bodies towards candidates; control over the sources of financing and over expenditures in the election campaign; publicity and openness of election campaign; freedom of campaigning.

3. The participation of citizens in elections to bodies of local self-government is voluntary. It shall be considered, that voters who did not participate in voting during elections, support the results of expressed will of those voters, who took part in the voting on the elections.