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Article 29
 

Proxy Persons of Candidates

1. A candidate shall have the right to appoint his/her proxy persons.

2. Proxy persons shall be registered immediately by the election commission that registered the candidate, on the basis of the candidate’s written application and the statement of the citizen himself/herself about his/her consent to be a proxy person. The election commission shall issue to the proxy person a certificate of the form established by the Central Election Commission.

3. Deputies, members of the Government, officials of the Presidential Administration and Prime-Minister’s Office, of the Jogorku Kenesh officials of government and local self-government executive bodies, municipal service, election commission members, officers of law-enforcement agencies and courts, military servicemen, and foreign citizens shall not have the right to be proxy persons.

4. Proxy persons shall act within the limits of the authorities, granted to them by the candidates.

5. Proxy persons shall have the right to:

carry out campaigning and other activity in any forms permitted by law and with the use of legal methods to promote the candidates’ election, present their election programs;

speak at pre-election rallies, meetings with constituents, participate in pre-election debates and discussions;

obtain necessary assistance from government and local self-government bodies in holding pre-election rallies and meetings with constituents;

be present at election commissions sessions;

be present at polling stations, including the polling stations situated on the territory of military units, in the course of voting, counting of votes and summing up of the voting results;

get familiarized with the documents of the election commissions as well as with the protocols of results of voting and election returns;

appeal decisions and actions (failure to act) of election commissions and be present at examination of complaints and statements.

6. Proxy persons of candidates shall not have the right to:

interfere with the work of election commissions;

sign instead of a voter on his/her request for receiving ballots in the polling station as well as fill in the ballots instead of him/her in the polling booth, specially equipped place or the room for secret voting;

run informational TV and radio programs (talk-shows), participate in mass media coverage of elections provided they are journalists, mass media creative workers or officials of these mass media editorial staff.

7. The management (employer) should provide proxy persons, upon their request, with an unpaid leave for the period specified in Clause 3 Article 28 of this Code.

8. Candidates shall have the right to recall their proxy persons at any time, having notified the election commission that shall nullify the certificates issued to these trusted persons.

9. Authority of the proxy persons shall be terminated along with the forfeiture of his status by the registered candidate.

(In the edition of the Law of the Kyrgyz Republic issued on January 24th 2004 year, No. 7)