Procedure of Election Bloc Establishment
1. An election bloc may be created by two or more parties, being referred to in paragraph 2 of Article 10 of this Law, based on decisions of a congress (meeting, conference) of each of the said parties. Such decision should be signed by a party leader and sealed with a party’s seal. Congresses (meetings, conferences) of parties, which decide to establish an election bloc, may be held in any time prior to expiration of nomination term.
2. Heads or representatives of parties, being authorized by congresses (meetings, conferences) to establish an election bloc, shall enter into agreement on creation thereof, to be signed by them and sealed with seals of establishing parties.
3. An agreement on creation of an election bloc should determine as follows:
1) full and abbreviated name of a bloc;
2) management bodies of an election bloc and ways of operation thereof;
3) representative quotas and way of delegation of representatives to an inter-party congress (meeting, conference) of parties constituting a bloc;
4) procedure of an inter-party congress (meeting, conference) holding for nomination of candidates;
5) procedure of taking decisions by an inter-party congress (meeting, conference);
6) terms of nomination and quotas of deputy representation in the election list of parties constituting an election bloc;
7) procedure of making decisions on excluding an individual from an election list of candidates for deputies of a party (bloc).
4. Full name of a bloc should contain names of all parties, constituting a bloc. Full or abbreviated name of a bloc may not include name of party, which is not included in a bloc, names and surnames of persons or historical individuals if they are not candidates on behalf of this bloc or if their names or surnames are not used in the official name at least of one party which is included in the bloc.
5. The Central Election Commission shall be informed on establishment of a bloc no later than five days before the inter-party congress (meeting, conference). A notice signed by party representatives, authorized to create an election bloc, shall be accompanied with an agreement on creation of an election bloc, decision of each party on creation of an election bloc, and extracts from protocol of congresses (meetings, conferences) on consideration of the issue, and copies of certificates on registration of parties, which have created an election bloc, their charters being certified free of charge by the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine after announcement of the election process beginning. If a name of a bloc contains an individual’s name, a notice shall also be accompanied with an individual’s permit, bearing his/her signature certified under the established procedure.
6. If it is revealed that an agreement on establishment of an election bloc conflicts with this Article or if a party enters an election bloc in defiance of paragraph 2 of Article 10 of this Law, the Central Election Commission shall send a notification to parties, which created an election bloc, demanding that infringement should be eliminated and saying that repeat infringement may cause refusal in registration of candidates nominated by a bloc based on sub-paragraphs 1, 2 of paragraph 1 of Article 62 of this Law, within two days after being informed on a bloc establishment. The said notification shall be sent to parties constituting an election bloc no later than on the third day after receipt of documents, as referred to in paragraph 5 of this Article.
