Procedure for Nominating MP Candidates

1. The right to nominate MP candidates shall be exercised by the voters through the parties in accordance with the procedure specified by this Code.

2. The nomination of MP candidates shall begin on the first day of the election process and shall end forty-five days before the day of voting.

3. The nomination of MP candidates by a party, the formation and approval of a party’s nationwide electoral list and regional electoral list of MP candidates shall be conducted by the party at its congress (meeting, conference) pursuant to the procedure prescribed by the party’s charter and this Article.

A member of the Central Election Commission, on behalf of the head of the Central Election Commission, has the right to be present at the party congress (meeting, conference) regarding the nomination of MP candidates.

4. A notification of the time and place of holding a party’s congress (meeting, conference) with the purpose of nominating MP candidates, and the procedure for accreditation of media representatives at such a congress, determined by its organizers, shall be published on the official website of the party, no later than five days prior to the day of the congress (meeting, conference) and be submitted to the Central Election Commission. The Central Election Commission shall publish such announcement on its official website no later than the next day after its receipt.

5. A party may nominate as an MP candidate a person who is either a member of that party or not a member of any party, provided that the person shall have the right to be elected an MP under Article 134 of this Code.

6. A party shall nominate candidates from among the persons specified in Part five of this Article, in the form of a nationwide electoral list, which shall be formed and approved at the congress (meeting, conference) of a party.

7. A party’s nationwide electoral list shall consist of no more than 450 MP candidates.

8. From among MP candidates included in the nationwide electoral list, except for candidates included under first nine numbers in the nationwide electoral list, a party shall, at the same congress (meeting, conference) form and approve the regional lists of MP candidates in each electoral district, provided for by Article 138 of this Code. A party’s regional electoral list shall include no less than five and no more than eighteen candidates.

9. Each MP candidate, included in the nationwide electoral list, shall be also included in the one of the regional electoral lists, except for candidates included under first nine numbers in the nationwide electoral list. A candidate shall not be included in a party’s nationwide electoral list more than once, or in two or more different regional electoral lists.

10. A person shall be entitled to give his or her consent to stand as a candidate in an election and be included in the nationwide and regional electoral lists of only one party.

11. A sequence of appearance (sequence number) of MP candidates in the nationwide electoral list and in the regional electoral lists shall be determined at a party’s congress (meeting, conference) during the nomination of MP candidates and formation of the respective list.

12. When compiling a nationwide and regional electoral list, a party shall ensure that both men and women (no less than two candidates of each gender) shall be present in each five candidates (places from the first to the fifth, from the sixth to the tenth and so on) in the electoral lists.
In case the party forms nationwide and regional electoral lists with the number of MP candidates, which is not a multiple of five, the requirement on alternate inclusion of candidates of different sexes in the list shall applied to the last candidates in the list (from 1 to 4).

13. A decision of a party’s congress (meeting, conference) to nominate MP candidates from the party shall be made by way of approval of both nationwide and regional electoral lists of MP candidates, assigned by the party to the respective electoral regions, provided for by Article 138 of this Code, which shall be appended to such a decision and shall be an integral part thereof. A decision of a party’s congress (meeting, conference) on nomination of MP candidates shall be signed by the head of the party and affixed with the seal of the party.

14. The forms of a party’s nationwide and regional electoral lists of MP candidates shall be established by the Central Election Commission and cannot be changed during the election process.

15. The nationwide electoral list shall contain the following information with regard to each candidate:

1) ordinal number of an MP candidate in the nationwide electoral list;

2) last name, first name (all first names), patronymic name (if any) of an MP candidate;

3) day, month and year of birth;

4) citizenship with indication of the time of residing in the territory of Ukraine;

5) information on educational attainment;

6) job position (occupation), place of employment;

7) address of place of residence;

8) party membership;

9) information on presence or absence of a criminal record pertaining to an MP candidate;

10) information on presence or absence of a representative mandate pertaining to an MP candidate;

11) number and name of an electoral region, to which an MP candidate has been assigned;

12) ordinal number of an MP candidate in the respective regional electoral list.

16. Each regional electoral list shall contain an ordinal number of each MP candidate in this regional electoral list, as well as the data indicated in clauses 2-8 of Part 15 of this Article.