The procedure of Nomination of Candidates to a Village, Settlement or City Council (a territorial community with up to 10,000 voters)

1. The right to nominate candidates to a village, settlement or city council (a territorial community with up to 10,000 voters) shall be exercised by the voters through the local party organizations, or through self-nomination, in accordance with the procedure specified by this Code.
A person may be nominated as a candidate for a local council only by one local political party organization, or only through self-nomination.

2. The nomination of candidates by a party organization in each multi-member election district shall be conducted by the party organization at its conference or meeting, pursuant to the procedure prescribed by the party’s charter and this Article.

3. A party organization may nominate as a candidate for a local council, 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 a local council member under Article 193 of this Code.

4. A party organization shall nominate candidates from among persons specified in Part three of this Article, in the form of a list of candidates to a respective council (indicating the number of the multi-member district in which each candidate is nominated), which shall be formed and approved at a party organization’s conference or meeting.

5. A number of candidates for the local council, which are included in the list of candidates for a respective council in each multi-member election district, shall not exceed the number of mandates to be distributed in a respective multi-member election district.

6. A person shall be entitled to express his or her consent to be a candidate and be included in a list of candidates for f a respective council only by one party organization.

6. A person may be nominated as a candidate in a respective local election only from one local party organization (unless he or she is running through self-nomination).

7. When compiling a list of candidates to a respective council, a party organization shall ensure the representation of no less than 30 percent of persons of each gender, in the total number of candidates for a respective council.

8. A decision of a party organization’s conference or meeting to nominate candidates from a party organization shall be made by way of approval of a list of candidates to a respective council (indicating the number of the multi-member district in which each candidate is nominated), which shall be appended to such a decision and shall be an integral part thereof. A decision of a party organization’s meeting or conference on the nomination of candidates shall be signed by the head of the party organization and affixed with the party organization’s seal, or, in the case of absence thereof, with the seal of the higher-level party organization.

9. The form of a party organization’s list of candidates to the respective council shall be established by the Central Election Commission and cannot be changed during the election process.

10. The list of candidates to the respective council shall contain the following information with regard to each candidate:

1) ordinal number of the multi-member district in which candidate is nominated;

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

3) day, month and year of birth;

4) citizenship;

5) information on educational attainment;

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

7) party membership;

8) address of the place of residence;

9) information on the presence or absence of a criminal record;

10) information on the presence or absence of a representative mandate.

The documents provided for in part two of Article 223 of this Code shall be attached to the application for self-nomination.

A person may be nominated as a candidate by self-nomination in only one constituency.