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Article 51
 

Procedure for Registration of Candidates to the Post of President of Ukraine

1. The Central Election Commission shall register a candidate to the post of the President of Ukraine subject to the receipt of the following documents:

1) an application from the candidate to the post of President of Ukraine using the form established by the Central Election Commission (the candidate must personally fill in the form);

2) an autobiography of the person nominated candidate of a length less than or equal to two thou­sand printed characters, which must contain: surname, name and patronymic, day, month and year of birth, information on citizenship, education, employment history, position (occupation), employer, social activities (including those in elective offices), party affiliation, family composition, address of place of residence with a specification of the amount of time he/she has resided in Ukraine, and information on any convictions that have not been annulled or abrogated according to the procedure established by law;

3) a candidate's pre-election program, composed in the state language, of a length less than or equal to twelve thousand printed characters;

4) a document certifying that a deposit has been made according to article 49 of this law;

5) a property and income statement according to article 50 of this Law;

6) photos of the candidate of the size and amount established by the Central Election Commission.

2. For the registration of a person nominated by the party (bloc) as a candidate to the post of President of Ukraine, apart from the documents envisaged by part one of this article, the following documents shall be submitted:

1) an application for registration of the candidate signed by the leader of the party (leaders of the parties that are members of the bloc) and verified with the seal of the party (seals of the parties that are members of the bloc);

2) copies of the registration certificate of the party (parties that are members of the bloc) and its charter (the charters of the parties that are members of the bloc) certified by the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine free of charge after the beginning of the election process has been announced.

3) an extract from the minutes of the congress (meeting, conference) of each party that are members of the election bloc regarding the formation of the election bloc, certified with the signature of the leader of the party and the seal of that party - in case the candidate is nominated by a bloc;

4) an agreement on the formation of the election bloc (in case the candidate is nominated by a bloc);

5) an extract from the minutes of the congress (meeting, conference) of the party (inter-party con­gress (meeting, conference) of the parties that are members of the bloc) regarding the nomination of a candidate to the post of President of Ukraine from the party (bloc), which must contain the information envisaged by part six of article 47 of this Law. The extract from the minutes shall be certified by the leader of the party (leaders of the parties that are members of the bloc) and with the seal of the party (seals of the parties that are members of the bloc);

6) a statement of the person who has been nominated as a candidate, on his/her consent to be a candidate to the post of President of Ukraine from that party (bloc), and, in connection with that , consent to publish his/her biographic data and the obligation, in case he/she is elected, to transfer, according to the procedure established by law, within one month after the results of the election are officially announced, the enterprises and corporate rights owned by the him/her into the management of another person and to discontinue activities or resign from a representative mandate which, according to the Constitution of Ukraine and the laws of Ukraine, are inconsistent with occupying the post of President of Ukraine.

3. The Central Election Commission shall issue a receipt for the documents specified in part one and two of this article to the authorized representative of the party or the election bloc of parties who filed them. The receipt shall contain the list of documents received, the day, month and year, as well as the time of their receipt, and the position and surname of the person who received the documents.

4. Documents, submitted to the Central Election Commission after the beginning of the election process according to the procedure envisaged by part five of article 45 of this Law, may not be resubmitted.

5. Submission of documents to the Central Election Commission for the purposes of registration shall be terminated within ninety-days prior to the elections.

6. The nominee to the post of President of Ukraine has the right to withdraw his/her statement to stand as a self-nominee, or his/her statement of consent to stand as a candidate from the respective party (bloc), prior to the day he/she is registered as a candidate. A repeat statement of the person on his/her self-nomination, or on his/her consent to run as a candidate in the elections of the President of Ukraine from this party (bloc), shall not be accepted.

7. In case the candidate has been registered, a copy of the resolution about the registration shall be issued to the authorized representative of the party (bloc) or to the candidate to the post of President of Ukraine no later than the next day. A registration certificate of a candidate to the post of President of Ukraine shall be issued to the candidate no later than three days from the day the decision on his/her registration was adopted. Within the same term, the decision on the candidate's registration shall be published in the newspapers "Holos Ukrainy" and "Uriadovy Courier".

8. If, in the pre-election program of a candidate to the post of President of Ukraine, the Central Election Commission discovers allusions to provisions aimed at the liquidation of the independence of Ukraine, a violent change of the constitutional order, a violation of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the state, a disruption of its security, an unlawful seizure of state power, propaganda of war, violence, the unleashing of ethnic, racial, and religious hostility, an encroachment on human rights and freedoms or the health of the population, it must appeal to the Supreme Court of Ukraine within the term of five days from the date the documents were submitted with a request to have this fact established by court.

9. The Central Election Commission shall decide on the registration or the denial of registration of the candidate in the course of five days after the receipt of the documents envisaged by this article. In the case, envisaged in part eight of this article, the decision to register the candidate to the post of President of Ukraine shall be taken by the Central Election Commission within a five days term from the day it received the decision of the Supreme Court of Ukraine.

10. The Central Election Commission shall terminate the registration of candidates to the post of the President of Ukraine no later than eighty-five days prior to the day of the elections.

11. The list of candidates registered by the Central Election Commission, indicating surname, name and patronymic, year of birth, education al background, permanent place of residence, principal employer (employment), party affiliation, and the nominating subject, shall be published by the Central Election Commission in the newspapers "Holos Ukrainy" and "Uriadovy Courier" within five days after the registration of candidates has been completed.

12. The registered candidates shall have equal rights irrespective of the way they were nominated.