List of Candidates for Elections of Self-Governing Region Chairman

(1) List of candidates can be submitted by the political party registered pursuant to a special regulation, and an independent candidate. The political party submits the list of candidates both in paper form and in electronic form through its authorised representative, and the independent candidate in person no later than 60 days before the date of election to the recording clerk of the electoral commission of the Self-Governing Region. The time limit for the submission of the list of candidates shall end upon the expiry of the last day of the time limit. The lists of candidates, which have not been delivered in the specified way, and the lists of candidates delivered after the expiry of the time limit shall not be taken into account.

(2) For the purpose of elections, political parties can create a coalition and submit a joint list of candidates pursuant to Paragraph 1. If a political party submits the list of candidates independently, for elections of Self-Governing Region Chairman it cannot submit the list of candidates within a coalition.

(3) The list of candidates of a political party or coalition shall contain

a) the name of the political party or names of the political parties creating a coalition,

b) the name, surname, degree, date of birth, employment of the candidate at the time of submission of the list of candidates, address of permanent residence of the candidate,

c) the name, surname, position, signature of the person authorised to act on behalf of the political  party and the seal of the political party; for a coalition, the name, surname, position, signature of the person entitled to act on behalf of each political party creating the coalition and the seal of each political party creating the coalition.

(4) The following must be attached to the list of candidates of a political party or coalition

a) the statement of the candidate, which must be confirmed by the handwritten signature of the candidate, that they agree with their candidature, that they do not stand as a candidate in other list of candidates and have no obstacles to the right to be elected,

b) the notice of determination of the authorised representative of the political party or coalition and their substitute including the name, surname and address, to which papers can be delivered; the acts of the authorised representative in electoral matters are binding on the political party or coalition; no candidate or recording clerk of the electoral commission of the Self-Governing Region may act as the authorised representative of a political party or coalition or their substitute.

(5) The political party or coalition may provide only one candidate in the list of candidates.

(6) The list of candidates of an independent candidate shall contain the name, surname, degree, date of birth, employment of the candidate at the time of submission of the list of candidates, address of permanent residence of the candidate and candidate’s handwritten signature.

(7) The list of candidates of an independent candidate must be accompanied by the statement of the candidate, which must be confirmed by the handwritten signature of the candidate, that they agree with their candidature, that they do not stand as a candidate in other list of candidates and have no obstacles to the right to be elected.

(8) The list of candidates of each independent candidate shall be accompanied by a separate document signed by the Self-Governing Region voters supporting their candidature containing 1,000 signatures. When signing the separate document, each voter shall provide their name, surname, date of birth, permanent residence, which means the name of municipality, street name, if the municipality is divided to streets, and house number. Each sheet of the separate document shall contain the name, surname, degree, date of birth and permanent residence address of the candidate. One separate document can support only one candidate.

(9) The candidate for Self-Governing Region Chairman must be permanently residing in the municipality or military district belonging to the territory of the Self-Governing Region, in which he/she stands as a candidate.

(10) The candidate for Self-Governing Region Chairman may also stand as a candidate for council member.

(11) The recording clerk of the electoral commission of the Self-Governing Region determines whether the submitted lists of candidates contain the particulars pursuant to Paragraphs 3 and 6 and whether they are accompanied by papers pursuant to Paragraphs 4, 7 and 8. If this is not the case, the recording clerk shall call upon the authorised representative of the political party or coalition, or the independent candidate to modify or supplement the list of candidates within the time limit specified by them.

(12) The recording clerk of the electoral commission of the Self-Governing Region submits the lists of candidates to the electoral commission of the Self-Governing Region for review and registration in its first session.