§ Article 84(untitled)

Nominating a candidate for Deputy

1. Political parties shall submit to the Central Electoral Commission the application

 on running in elections of the National Assembly, upon the decision of their

 permanently functioning governing body, and the application shall be signed by

 the head of the political party. Alliances of political parties shall submit to the

 Central Electoral Commission the application on running in elections of the

 National Assembly upon decisions of permanently functioning governing bodies

 of member political parties to the alliance, and the application shall be signed by

 the heads of member political parties to the alliance.

2. The following shall be attached to the application of a political party (alliance of

 political parties) on running in elections of the National Assembly:

 (1) the charter of the political party (the charters of the political parties

 included in the alliance);

 (2) the decision of the permanently functioning governing body of the political

 party (decisions of permanently functioning governing bodies of member

 political parties to the alliance) on approving and nominating national and

 district electoral lists;

 (3) the national and district electoral lists;

 (4) the written statements of candidates for Deputy included in electoral lists

 on their consent for being registered as candidate for Deputy;

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 (5) the national list presented by each of the political parties included in the

 alliance of political parties;

 (6) the receipt on payment of the electoral deposit in the amount of 10 000-

 fold of the minimum salary;

 (7) a statement of information proving that candidates for Deputy included in
 the electoral lists have been citizens of the Republic of Armenia only, for
 the last 4 years, and have been permanently residing in the Republic of
 Armenia for the last 4 years;

 (8) carbon copy of the document, or a statement of information issued by the
 Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Armenia, certifying the
 command of the Armenian language;

 (9) carbon copies of personal identification documents of candidates for
 Deputy included in the electoral lists.

3. The form of the statement of information prescribed by point 7 of part 2 of this
 Article shall be approved by the Central Electoral Commission. The mentioned
 statement of information shall be issued by the authorised body within a 3-day
 period following the request but no earlier than the calling of elections.

 The authorised body shall upon its decision refuse to issue a statement of
 information of the specified form to the applicant, if the data thereon do not
 meet the requirements of Article 80 of this Code.

4. The statement of information prescribed by point 8 of part 2 of this Article shall
 be issued by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Armenia
 within a 1-week period following the request.

5. The application on running in elections of the National Assembly shall also
 contain data on up to 3 authorised representatives (surname, name, patronymic,
 date of birth, personal identification document number, place of employment
 and position (occupation)).

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6. Documents necessary for registering the electoral lists of a political party

 running in elections shall be submitted to the Central Electoral Commission only

 personally by the authorised representative of the political party (alliance of

 political parties) within the time limits prescribed by this Code.

7. Where errors, deletions, erasures, misprints are found in the documents

 submitted for registration of the electoral lists of a political party (alliance of

 political parties) running in elections, the Central Electoral Commission shall be

 obliged to bring them to the attention of persons having submitted the

 documents so as to correct them, as well as correct itself, in their presence, the

 evident errors and misprints existing in the submitted documents.

 The Commission shall have no right not to accept the submitted documents only

 for the reason that they contain such errors, deletions, erasures, or misprints.

 The provisions of this part shall not apply to correction of such errors, deletions,

 erasures, misprints or elimination of other deficiencies found in the documents,

 the right whereof is reserved by law to the bodies having adopted or issued such

 documents.

 In case the submitted documents contain inaccuracies referred to in the second

 paragraph of this part or in case of incompleteness of documents attached to the

 application, the Central Electoral Commission shall give 48 hours for the

 elimination of the mentioned inaccuracies, completion of the attached

 documents. In case of failure to eliminate, within that period of time, the

 inaccuracies regarding the electoral list of a political party (alliance of political

 parties) running in elections, regarding a candidate included in the electoral list,

 or in case of failure to complete the documents, the registration of the electoral

 list of a political party (alliance of political parties) running in elections, a

 candidate included in the electoral list shall be rejected, and his or her name

 shall be removed from the electoral list of the political party (alliance of political

 parties) running in elections as prescribed by the Central Electoral Commission.

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 Article 85. Registering the electoral list of a political party

1. In case no objection is raised by the members of the Central Electoral

 Commission with respect to the registration of the electoral list of a political

 party, the electoral list shall be registered without voting.

 In case of registration of the electoral list of a political party the district electoral

 lists shall also be considered as registered.

2. After the registration of the electoral list of a political party, at the same sitting,

 the Central Electoral Commission shall, by drawing of lots, provide record

 numbers to the political parties running in elections. The mentioned numbers

 shall not be subject to change. In case of holding a second round of election, no

 numbers shall be indicated in the ballot paper for the political party running in

 elections and the newly formed alliance.

3. Within a 3-day period following the expiry of the time limit for registration, the

 Central Electoral Commission shall publish on its website the national and district

 electoral lists of political parties.

4. An authorised representative of the political party shall have the right to be

 present at the sitting of the Central Electoral Commission held for the discussion

 of the issue of registering the electoral lists of the political party.