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Article 101
 

Registration of Candidates for Election to the Council of the Republic

 

Candidates for election to the Council of the Republic shall be registered by the Central Commission. A candidate for election to the Council of the Republic shall be registered only if the following documents have been submitted to the Central Commission prior to the beginning of the registration procedure: the decision by the Council of Deputies of the base level and the respective executive committee to nominate a candidate for election to the Council of the Republic; the application of the person, nominated as a candidate for election to the Council of the Republic, stating his consent to be a candidate for election to the Council of the Republic from the Oblast or the City of Minsk; and this person's biographical data, and with regard to the persons, specified in Article 99 of this Code, their applications, stating that these persons agree to resign their positions or to terminate the powers of deputies of the Chamber of Representatives.

 

The registration of the candidates for election to the Council of the Republic shall begin 60 days and end 55 days before the expiry of the term of office of the Council of the Republic of the current convocation.

 

The Central Commission shall verify the compliance of the procedure for the nomination of candidates for election to the Council of the Republic, make a conclusion on this and take a decision to register the members of the Council of the Republic, or a motivated decision to deny registration. An appeal against the decision by the Central Commission may be lodged within three days with the Supreme Court of the Republic of Belarus. The Supreme Court of the Republic of Belarus shall consider the appeal within three days, and the decision on the appeal, delivered by the court, shall be final. The registered candidates for election to the Council of the Republic shall be issued respective certificates.

 

A candidate for election to the Council of the Republic, from the date of his registration to the date of publication of the election results, shall not be sent on a long-term business trips, or called for military service or a muster.

 

The Central Commission, not later than on the fourth day after registration of the candidates for election to the Council of the Republic, shall hand over the report on the registration of the candidates for election to the Council of the Republic to the mass media specifying the surname, name and patronymic name, the date of birth, the profession, the position (occupation), the place of birth and the place of residence, the party membership and the period of residence in the territory of the Oblast or the City of Minsk.

 

Chapter 21. Holding of the Sitting of Deputies of Local Councils of Deputies of the Base Level and of Deputies of the Minsk City Council of, Deputies on Elections of Members to the Council of the Republic