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Article 17
 

Terms for Calling and Conducting Elections

1. Ordinary elections of the President of Ukraine shall be conducted on the last Sunday of October of the fifth year of the term of the President of Ukraine.

2. The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine shall take a decision on calling ordinary elections of the President of Ukraine no later than one hundred and thirty days prior to the day of elections. The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine shall ensure the publication of the decision to call ordinary elections of the President of Ukraine in the mass media.

3. The election process of ordinary elections of the President of Ukraine shall begin no later than one hundred and twenty days prior to the day of elections.

4. Extraordinary elections of the President of Ukraine shall take place on the last Sunday of the ninety-day term from the day of:

1) a personal statement by the President of Ukraine about his/her resignation at a session of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine;

2) the publication of a decision of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine confirming the inability of the President of Ukraine to perform his/her duties and power due tothe state of health;

3) the publication of a decision of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on removal of the President of Ukraine from his/her post based on impeachment; and

4) the adoption by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of a resolution on calling extraordinary elections in connection with the death of the President of Ukraine.

5. The resolution of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on calling extraordinary elections of the President of Ukraine in the cases envisaged by clauses 1 to 3 of part four of this article shall be adopted on the day when the President of Ukraine makes the statement specified in clause 1 of part four of this article, or on the day of taking the decisions envisaged in clauses 2 and 3 of part four of this article, respectively.

6. The election process of extraordinary elections of the President of Ukraine shall begin on the day following the day specified in clauses 1 to 4 of part four of this article.

7. Repeat elections of the President of Ukraine shall take place on the last Sunday of the ninety-day term from the day the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted the resolution on calling the repeat elections.

8. The resolution of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on calling repeat elections shall be adopted no later than on the fifteenth day after the Central Election Commission filed the respective submission to the Verkhovna Rada.

9. The election process of repeat elections of the President of Ukraine shall begin on the day following the day when the Verkhovna Rada officially publishes the resolution on their calling.