Loss of campaigner status

1. The campaigner status shall be lost on occurrence of at least one of the following grounds:

1) request for status withdrawal received from a campaigner or nominator of the latter under the campaigner’s request, submitted before the expiry of the withdrawal period of the application documents;

2) under the procedure set out in this Code, registration shall no longer be granted after termination of the period of registration;

3) registration shall not be granted where a candidate or a list of candidates fail to submit application documents by the deadline for their submission or where the documents submitted by a candidate or a list of candidates are found to be defective;

4) cancelled registration of a candidate or a list of candidates;

5) revocation by the Central Electoral Commission of the campaigner status due to gross violations of this Code;

6) conviction and/or penal sanction imposed on the political organisation by court (during the period of serving the sentence and/or penal sanction);

7) death of a campaigner (for natural persons); liquidation (for political organisations).

2. Independent participants having lost their status of independent participants shall not be entitled to accept any donations for the financing of the political campaign and to assume any obligations related to the election campaign from the date of entry into force of the decision on the loss of campaigner status. The loss of the status of an independent participant shall not absolve entities and individuals from the obligation to fulfil the obligations of entities and persons who have lost the campaigner status arising from this Code and other laws.

3. Should an independent participant lose the status of an independent participant, all the independent participants registered on his or her request and his or her represented participants shall lose the status of campaigners.