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Article 9
 

Eligibility

1. A citizen of Ukraine, who is thirty-five years of age on the day of elections, eligible to vote, has a commands of the state language and has resided in Ukraine for the last ten years prior to the day of elections, can be elected the President of Ukraine.

2. According to this Law, residence in Ukraine means:

1) residence on the territory within the State boundary of Ukraine;

2) stay on a vessel at sea under the State Flag of Ukraine;

3) stay , in accordance with the procedure established by legislation, of citizens of Ukraine outside the boundaries of Ukraine on official travel, service in diplomatic and other official representations and consular offices of Ukraine, international organizations and their agencies;

4) stay at polar stations of Ukraine;

5) service in a military unit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine dislocated outside the boundaries of Ukraine;

6) stay of the citizens of Ukraine outside its boundaries according to applicable international agreements of Ukraine.

3. According to this Law, residence in Ukraine shall also include residence together with the persons, specified in clause three of part two of this article, of members of their family.

4. A citizen, who has been convicted of a premeditated crime and such conviction has not been cancelled or removed according to the procedure established by law, cannot be nominated as a candidate to the post of the President of Ukraine.

5. One and the same individual cannot be the President of Ukraine for more than two consecutive terms. An individual who has been elected the President of Ukraine for two consecutive terms cannot be nominated as a candidate for this post.

6. A person, whose powers at the post of President of Ukraine have been terminated before the term according to the Constitution of Ukraine, cannot be nominated candidate to the post of the President of Ukraine in extraordinary elections called in connection with the aforementionedtermination of powers.