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1. The right to nominate candidates for members of local government bodies shall belong to citizens' assemblies that are eligible if there are at least fifty citizens who have the right to vote and live compactly in rural and urban local communities, as well as citizens - by self-nomination.
2. The decision to nominate candidates for members of local government bodies shall be made by a majority vote from the number of citizens present at the meeting, which is documented by the relevant protocol.
3. The decision of the citizens’ assembly:
1) shall be brought to notice of the nominee;
2) shall be sent to the relevant territorial election commission together with the application of the candidate about the consent to run for election.
4. Nomination of candidates for members of local government bodies by citizens shall be carried out by way of self-nomination by submitting an application of intention to the relevant territorial election commission to run for the members of local government bodies in the territory of the respective rural or urban local community.
5. A citizen who is not resident in the territory of a given rural or urban local community cannot be nominated as a member of a local government body.
6. The number of nominated candidates shall not be limited.
7. The nomination of candidates shall begin on the day following the day of appointment of the election, and shall end fourteen days before the election day.
8. If less than two candidates for members of local government bodies are registered on the day of expiry of the registration period of candidates, the territorial election commission shall extend the period for nomination of candidates, but not more than twenty days.
9. The territorial election commission within three days shall establish the candidate’s compliance with the requirements, imposed by the Constitution and this Constitutional Law.
Footnote. Article 117, as amended, by the Constitutional Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated April 14, 2004 № 545.