Responsibility of a Candidate for Deputy, Candidate for Position of Village, Settlement, City Chairman
1. Violations of the requirements of this Law by a candidate for deputy of local rada or by a candidate for position of village, settlement, city chairman, by their authorized persons shall entail the cancellation, on the basis of court’s decision, by a territorial election commission of its decisions (decisions of respective election commissions) on registration of candidate, or on the voting results and elections outcomes in the part concerning the respective candidate.
2. The following shall be the bases for cancellation by territorial election commission of the decisions specified by the first paragraph of this Article:
1) candidate’s presenting an obviously untrue information about himself/herself to the subjects of electoral process;
2) forgery of documents which are submitted by candidate or his/her authorized persons to appropriate election commissions;
3) exploiting by the candidate or by his/her authorized persons, during the preparation and conduct of election, of his/her official position, in particular in order to influence the subjects of electoral process, to involve in campaigning at work time individuals officially subordinated to them, to utilize in the course of election campaign of official transport for the benefit of a candidate, of copying equipment, xerox machines, other technical means, equipment, which are within candidate’s, his/her authorized persons’ subordination;
4) candidate’s or his/her authorized persons’ violation of the norms of using the mass media for campaign publicity work, established according to this Law;
5) candidate’s or his/her authorized persons’ taking measures of campaigning nature which were accompanied with rendering to voters, to other subjects of electoral process, unpaid or on privileged terms, of goods, securities, credits, money, services;
6) candidate’s or his/her authorized persons’ campaigning in any form on the day of elections, in particular at polling stations and in the territories adjoining them;
7) use, to carry out election campaign of a candidate, of funds in the amounts exceeding the standards determined by this Law, or from sources unforeseen by this Law;
8) candidate’s or his/her authorized persons’ ignoring the requirements of election commissions concerning non-admission of other violations of this Law.
The decision on registration of a candidate or on voting results and elections outcomes shall, in part which concerns the candidate, be canceled by territorial election commission also in the event other violations by him/her of the Ukrainian legislation, incompatible with the status of a candidate defined by this Law, were found.
3. Other responsibility, envisaged by the laws of Ukraine, shall entail for the hindrance of activities of other candidates or their authorized persons, committed by candidate or his/her authorized person through violence, deception, threats, bribery, or through disseminating of untrue information about them, except when decisions are canceled in the events envisaged by first paragraph of this Article.
4. Sums of funds at the accounts of private election funds, exceeding the standards established by this Law, shall be undisputedly transferred to appropriate local budgets.
