The procedure of Nomination of Candidates for a Village, Settlement or City Mayor

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

2. The nomination of candidates for a village, settlement, or city mayor in a single single-member election district by a party organization shall be conducted, thereby at its conference or meeting, pursuant to the procedure prescribed by the party’s charter and this Article.

3. A party organization may nominate a person who is neither a member of that party nor a member of any party as a candidate for a village, settlement or city mayor, provided that the person shall have the right to be elected under Article 193 of this Code.

4. In order to nominate a candidate for a village, settlement, or city mayor, a party organization shall do so by adopting a decision of its conference or meeting. In the event of nomination at a party organization’s conference or meeting candidates for posts of the village, settlement, or city mayors in more than one village, settlement or city territorial community a decision as regards each candidate shall be adopted separately.

A decision of a party organization’s meeting or conference on the nomination of candidates for a village, settlement or city mayor 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.

5. A decision of a party organization’s meeting or conference shall contain the following information as regards a candidate nominated as a village, settlement or city mayor:

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

2) day, month and year of birth;

3) citizenship;

4) information on educational attainment;

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

6) party membership;

7) address of the place of residence;

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

9) information on the presence or absence of a representative mandate;

10) the date of adoption of such a decision.

6. A citizen of Ukraine who, in accordance with Article 193 of this Code, has the right to be a candidate in local elections, may self-nominate as a candidate for the position of village, settlement, city mayor by submitting an application for self-nomination to the relevant territorial election commission.

The application for self-nomination shall be accompanied by the documents provided for in part two of Article 224 of this Code.

7. A person may run as a candidate for the position of only one village, settlement, city mayor from a party organization, or by way of self-nomination.