List of Candidates for Elections to Municipal Council

(1) List of candidates can be submitted by the political party registered pursuant to a special regulation, and an independent candidate. The political party shall deliver the list of candidates in paper 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 Local Electoral Commission. 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.

(3) If members of municipal council are elected in two or more constituencies, the political party or coalition can submit the list of candidates in each constituency. If a political party submits the list of candidates in one constituency independently, it must not submit the list of candidates in another constituency for elections to the same municipal council within a coalition; if a political party submits the list of candidates within a coalition, it can submit the list of candidates in another constituency for elections to the same municipal council only within the same coalition.

(4) 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, the number  of the constituency,

b) the nominal list of candidates containing names, surnames, degrees, dates of birth, employment of candidates at the time of submission of the list of candidates, addresses of permanent residence of candidates and the sequence in the list of candidates expressed by Arabic numerals for all candidates,

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; if a coalition is concerned, 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.

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

a) the statement of each candidate listed in the list of candidates, 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 the 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 Local Electoral Commission may act as the authorised representative of a political party or coalition or their substitute.

(6) In the list of candidates, the political party may include maximum as many candidates as the number of municipal council members to be elected in the respective constituency.

(7) The list of candidates of an independent candidate shall contain the number of the constituency, 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.

(8) 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.

(9) The list of candidates of each independent candidate shall include a document signed by the voters supporting his/her candidature and permanently residing in the municipality, in which he/she stands as a candidate (hereinafter the “signature document"). When signing the signature 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 signature document shall contain the name, surname, degree, date of birth and permanent residence address of the candidate. One signature document can support only one candidate. The necessary number of signatures is provided in Annex No. 1. The number of municipality residents as at the date of call of elections shall be published by the municipality in the way usual at the place no later than 85 days before the date of elections.

(10) The candidate for member of municipal council must be permanently residing in the municipality, in which he/she stands as a candidate.

(11) The candidate for elections to the same municipal council may stand as a candidate only in one constituency.

(12) The candidate for municipal council member may also stand as a candidate for municipality mayor.

(13) The recording clerk of the Local Electoral Commission determines whether th

submitted lists of candidates contain the particulars pursuant to Paragraphs 4 and 7 and whether they are accompanied by papers pursuant to Paragraphs 5, 8 and 9. 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.

(14) Once the list of candidates has been submitted, it is not possible to add any other candidates or to change their order.

The recording clerk of the Local Electoral Commission submits the lists of candidates to the Local Electoral Commission for review and registration in its first session.