The right of citizens of Ukraine to participate in local elections
1. Participation in local elections shall be personal matter of every citizen of Ukraine. Noone can be forced to participate or not to participate in local elections.
2. Citizens of Ukraine, who are 18 years of age on the day of elections and who permanently reside on the territory of the respective villages, settlements, cities, rayons in cities, shall have the right to vote on local elections.
3. Citizens of Ukraine found incompetent by court shall have no right to vote on local elections. Execution of suffrage right shall be suspended for the persons who are incarcerated by court’s order for the time of incarceration.
4. A citizen of Ukraine, eligible to vote and who is 18 years of age on the election day can be elected as deputy of village, settlement, city, rayon-in-city, rayon, oblast rada, as village, settlement, city chairman.
5. A citizen of Ukraine can simultaneously be nominated as a candidate for deputy of only one rada, or as a candidate for the position of village, settlement, city chairman respectively. A citizen of Ukraine can be a deputy of only one rada.
6. A citizen of Ukraine, who has been convicted by court for the intentional commission of crime, cannot be elected as deputy of village, settlement, city, rayon-in-city, rayon, oblast rada, as well as village, settlement, city chairman, unless this conviction is overturned or stricken from the record in the order established by law.
7. Persons, who according to the law, hold positions incompatible with the status of a rada deputy, of a village, settlement, city chairman, are obliged, if they are elected, to leave the position (cease activity) incompatible with the status of a deputy, village, settlement, city chairman, and to cease any entrepreneurial activity in cases envisaged by the law.
