Changes in Composition of Election Bloc of Parties
1. A party constituting a bloc may quit a bloc no later than 35 days before Election Day. Such decision shall be passed by a congress (meeting, conference) of a party in accordance with its statute. A decision of party on quitting a bloc and extract the from protocol of a congress (meeting, conference) on consideration of the issue, signed by a party’s head, the headman of a congress (meeting, conference) and sealed with a party’s seal, shall be submitted to the Central Election Commission and a management body of a bloc within three days.
2. If a party leaves a bloc, which includes more than two parties, it shall not affect a bloc’s status as a subject of the election process irrespective of the number of remaining parties. Name of a quitting party shall be excluded in ballot papers and other election documents from the list of parties constituting a bloc.
3. If a party leaves a bloc, which includes two parties, a remaining party shall be successor f a bloc — subject of the election process. At that, name of a successor party shall be indicated instead of a bloc’s name in ballot papers and other election documents.
4. If a decision, as referred to in paragraph 1 of this Law, is passed no later than 90 days prior to Election Day, a party, which left a bloc, shall have a right to nominate candidates for deputies under the procedure and in terms stipulated by this Law.
5. If a decision, as referred to in paragraph 1 of this Law, is passed later than 90 days prior to Election Day, a leaving party shall loss the status of a subject of the election process.
6. Based on the decision as stipulated by paragraph 1 of this Article, the Central Election Commission shall pass a decision on exclusion of individuals – members of a party, which has left a bloc, from an election list of bloc (a successor party being) or on cancellation of registration of candidates for deputies – party members.
7. Parties constituting a bloc may pass a decision on election bloc dissolution no later than 35 days prior to Election Day. Such decisions shall be passed by a congress (meeting, conference) of each party constituting a bloc. A decision on bloc dissolution and extracts from the protocol of congresses (meetings, conferences) of each party on consideration of the issue, signed by heads of parties, headmen of congresses (meetings, conferences) and certified with seals of parties, shall be submitted to the Central Election Commission within three days.
8. If decisions stipulated by paragraph 7 of this Article are passed no later than 90 days before Election Day, then each party compositing a bloc shall have the right to nominate candidates for deputies under the procedure and in terms stipulated by this Law.
9. If decisions stipulated by paragraph 7 of this Article are passed later than 90 days prior to Election Day, then parties constituting an election bloc shall loss their status of the election process subjects.
10. If decisions stipulated by paragraph 7 of this Article are passed before registration of candidates for deputies, included in an election list of a bloc, the Central Election Commission shall not consider an issue of their registration. If the said decisions are passed after registration of candidates for deputies, included in an election list of bloc, the Central Election Commission shall cancel registration of candidates for deputies, included into an election list of bloc, based on such decisions.
