General Procedure for Nominating Candidates into Local Council, Candidates for a Village, Settlement or City Mayor

1. The nomination of candidates for a village, settlement, or city mayor shall begin forty days prior to the day of voting and shall end thirty days prior to the day of voting.

2. The right to nominate candidates to the Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, an oblast, rayon, rayon in the city councils, as well as city, village, settlement councils (territorial communities with up to 10,000 voters) shall be exercised by the voters through the local party organizations (hereinafter, a party organization) in accordance with the procedure specified by this Code.

The right to nominate candidates to a village, settlement, or city (territorial communities with up to 10,000 voters) council shall be exercised by the voters through the party organizations or through self-nomination in accordance with the procedure specified by this Code.

The right to nominate candidates for a village, settlement, or city mayor shall be exercised by the voters in the respective single single-member election districts through the party organizations or through self-nomination, in accordance with the procedure specified by this Code.

3. A party organization shall be entitled to nominate candidates in the respective election under the condition that a respective party organization has been registered pursuant to the procedure prescribed by the Law. It shall not be allowed to enjoy the status of an electoral subject for a party organization, with regard to which the central executive power body that implements the state policy in the area of state registration of legal entities, registration (legalization) of public associations, civic union, other civic formations, has made a decision declaring, in accordance with the procedure established by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, the party organization’s or a party’s activities, name and/or symbols as such that failure to comply with the requirements of the Law of Ukraine “On Condemnation of Communist and National Socialist (Nazi) Totalitarian Regimes in Ukraine and Prohibition of their Symbols.”

4. A person may be nominated as a candidate in a multi-member district in no more than two levels of local councils.
A person nominated as a candidate for the position of a village, settlement, or city mayor may not be nominated at the same time in any other single-member constituencies for any local elections.

A person nominated as a candidate for the position of the village, settlement, city mayor (city with up to 75,000 voters) may be nominated as a candidate in a multi-member constituency at the same time to the relevant village, settlement city council and/or the relevant regional council.

A person nominated as a candidate for mayor (a city with 75,000 or more voters) may be nominated at the same time as a candidate in a multi-member constituency only to the relevant city council.

5. A person, subject to the requirements of part four of this article, may be nominated simultaneously as a candidate for local councils and a candidate for the position of village, settlement, or city mayor by nominating only from one local party organization, or through self-nomination.