61. Procedure of Registration of Candidates for Deputies
1. Candidates for deputies included in an election list of a party (bloc) shall be registered by the Central Election Commission on condition that the documents as stipulated by Article 58 of this Law are submitted.
2. Documents for registration of candidates for deputies shall be submitted to the Central Election Commission no later than 85 days before Election Day.
3. An individual included in an election list of candidates for deputies by a party (bloc), who failed to give his/her consent to run for a deputy’s office on behalf of the party (bloc) on the day when an application of a party (bloc) for registration of candidates for deputies is submitted, shall be deemed as excluded form an election list of a party (bloc) on the date of application of a party (bloc), as referred to in sub-paragraph 1 of paragraph 1 of Article 58 of this Law. An application of such person on his/her consent to run for the deputy’s office, submitted thereafter, shall not be accepted.
4. An individual put in an election list by a party (bloc), shall have the right to withdraw his/her consent to run for a deputy’s office until the registration day. When the Central Election Commission receives an application on withdrawal of consent to run for a deputy’s office, such person shall be deemed excluded from an election list of a party (bloc). The Central Election Commission shall inform a representative of a party (bloc) on such application received in written no later than on the day following acceptance of an application. Repeated consent of an individual to run for a deputy’s office on behalf of a party (bloc) shall not be accepted.
5. An individual put in several election lists of parties (blocs) upon his/her written consents to run for a deputy’s office on behalf of such parties shall be excluded from all election lists he/she was included by the decision of the Central Election Commission.
6. The Central Election Commission shall pass a decision on registration of candidates for deputies or on refusal in registration no later than on the 7th day after the day when an application for registration of deputies and accompanying necessary documents were received.
7. List and positions of candidates for deputies in a election list as determined by a party (bloc) may not be changed after their registration by the Central Election Commission, except for exclusion of individual candidates from an election list in cases stipulated by this Law.
8. If candidates for deputies are registered, a representative of a party (bloc) shall be given certificates of candidates for deputies, made in a form established by the Central Election Commission, together with a copy of decision on registration within three days after the respective decision is passed. An election list of candidates for deputies of a party (bloc) shall be published in the Holos Ukrainy and Uryadovyi Kuryer newspapers together with a decision on registration within the same period.
9. If the Central Election Commission reveals any signs of infringements of paragraph 1 of Article 37 of the Constitution of Ukraine in documents submitted by a party (bloc), it should complain to the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine on submitting a petition to the Supreme Court of Ukraine on prohibition of activities of a respective party. Registration of candidates for deputies of such party (bloc) shall be postponed until a court decision takes legal effect.
