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Basic Terminology Used in this Code

The following terms are used in this Code:

campaigning materials - printed, audio-visual and other materials containing features of pre-election campaigning and intended for mass dissemination, promulgation in the course of an election campaign;

campaigning (pre-election campaigning) - the activity of citizens of the Kyrgyz Republic, candidates, political parties, election blocs aimed at inducing constituents to participate in elections and to vote "for" this or that candidate or against all of them;

charitable activity – voluntary activity involving unselfish (free of charge or on preferential terms) transfer of property to citizens or juridical persons including financial assets and disinterested execution of work and provision of services;

“close relatives” - parents, husband (spouse), children, one’s native brothers and sisters,

guarantees of citizen's election rights - administrative, legal, informational and other means of ensuring election rights of citizens of the Kyrgyz Republic;

head of the local self-government – the highest official in the local self-government system on the territory of respective kenesh who is elected by citizens of the Kyrgyz Republic on the basis of universal equal direct suffrage with secret ballot;

civil servant - a citizen of the Kyrgyz Republic, holding a government position, permanently exercising paid professional activity to implement the authorized official responsibilities and accountable for their execution;

document identifying a voter - his/her passport or document replacing it. The following documents can replace a passport: army officer's ID; military card of enlisted personnel; a certificate issued by internal affairs bodies in accordance with the established format; pension certificate; driver's license;

government or local self-government official – a person who exercises permanently, temporarily or by special authority the functions of a government representative or performs administrative and managerial functions in government and self-government bodies;

voter - a citizen of the Kyrgyz Republic enjoying an active election right;

citizens' election rights - a Constitutional right of citizens of the Kyrgyz Republic to elect and to be elected to state and local self-government bodies including participation in nomination of candidates, campaigning, observation of the conduct of elections and work of election commissions that includes identifying voting results and the results of elections, as well as other election actions;

active election right - the right of citizens of the Kyrgyz Republic to elect state bodies and local self-government bodies;

passive election right - the right of citizens of the Kyrgyz Republic to be elected to state and local self-government bodies;

an election bloc - a voluntary association of two or more political parties for joint participation in elections;

election commissions - collegial bodies organizing and providing for preparation and conduct of elections;

single-member territorial constituency (single member territorial constituency)– an electoral district, in which one deputy (MP) is elected;

multi-member constituency (multi member territorial constituency)– an electoral district, in which several deputies (MPs) are elected whereby the voters votes for each candidate on individual basis

information programme – a television programme periodically telecasted by TV and radio broadcasting organizations and containing information on current events and news;

information provision for elections – informing the electorate, campaigning that promotes informed voting of the citizens, and openness of the elections;

election documents, documents of referendum – voters lists (main, additional), lists of early voters, ballot papers – valid, invalid, unused (and accounted for), spoiled (filled in with mistakes) , as well as ballots issued to voters for early voting and for voting outside of polling stations, strike off certificate (absentee certificates), minutes of the elections commissions, their decisions on the matters related to elections and referendums, instructions, provisions, and interpretations of the Central Election Commission for Elections and Referendum, registration documents of candidates, summary tables with results of voting, acts on the concurrence of results with those entered into electronic system “Shailoo”, lists and schemes of polling stations.

candidate - a person nominated (including any self-nominating person) in accordance with the established by this Code procedure as an aspirant to fill though elections a position in an organ of state power or local self-government body;

place of stay - a hotel, sanatorium, recreational facility, guest-house, camping, tourist station, hospital and other similar establishment, or living quarters where the citizen lives temporarily and which is not the place of his/her residence;

place of residence - an apartment house, a flat, official apartment, specialized houses (a hostel, hotel-asylum, manoeuvre fund house, special house for single elderly people, boarding house for disabled people, veterans and others), as well as other housing accommodation in which a citizen lives permanently or lives as the owner, as a tenant under a lease (sublease) agreement, tenancy agreement or any other grounds stipulated by laws of the Kyrgyz Republic;

municipal servant – a citizen of the Kyrgyz Republic holding a municipal position and permanently carrying out paid on account of the local budget professional activity to implement his/her authorized official duties for which he/she is responsible;

observer - a person appointed by a candidate, political party, election bloc, public association, by voters for keeping an observation of the process of voting, counting of votes, identifying the results of voting and determination of the election returns, according to the procedure established by law;

foreign (international) observer - a person, representing a foreign or international organization who obtained the right to carry out observation of the preparation and conduct of elections in the Kyrgyz Republic according to the procedure established by law;

public association - non-state, non-commercial voluntary union of citizens that is taking part in elections within the limits established by this code;

government bodies - bodies that were established and implement their state powers in accordance with the Constitution and legislation of the Kyrgyz Republic;

permanent residence – place of residence of a citizen certified by the registration stamp of the registration authority in the personal identification document;

law-enforcement agencies - bodies of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, national security, financial police, public prosecutor’s office, customs and taxation services, and Ministry of Justice;

representative local self-government bodies - local self-government authorized to resolve local issues and directly elected by citizens in the territories;

candidate’s representative – an authorized representative, trusted person, observer, representing a registered candidate;

prevailing residence – the place of residence of a citizen related to his productive, scientific, service and other activity;

system administrator – a specialist ensuring operation of the State Automated System “Shailoo” hardware in the respective election commission during the election;

Reference:

Governmental Decree issued on September 2nd 2004 #659 “On approving Provision “On System Administrators”

family member - husband (wife), as well as the children and parents of both spouses who depend on them and live together with them.

(In the edition of the Law of the Kyrgyz Republic issued on October 14th 2001 year, No. 87, January 24th 2004 year, No. 7, October 25th 2004 year, No. 185, December 23rd, 2004 year, No.194)