§ Article 130(untitled)

Nomination of candidates for member of the Councils of Elders
 of Yerevan, Gyumri and Vanadzor

1. Political parties shall submit the application for running in elections of the

 Council of Elders of Yerevan to the Central Electoral Commission based on the

 decision of their permanently functioning governing body. The application shall

 be signed by the head of the political party. Alliances of political parties shall submit

 the application for running in elections of the Council of Elders of Yerevan to the

 Central Electoral Commission based on the decisions of the permanently functioning

 governing bodies of member political parties to the alliance, and the application shall

 be signed by the heads of all member political parties to the alliance.

 Political parties shall submit the application for running in elections of the
 Councils of Elders of Gyumri, Vanadzor to the district electoral commission
 based on the decision of their permanently functioning governing body.
 The application shall be signed by the head of the political party. Alliances of
 political parties shall submit the application for running in elections of the
 Councils of Elders of Gyumri, Vanadzor to the district electoral commission
 based on the decisions of the permanently functioning governing bodies of
 member political parties to the alliance, and the application shall be signed by
 heads of all member political parties to the alliance.

2. Each political party (alliance of political parties) shall have the right to nominate
 only 1 electoral list. A political party included in an alliance of political parties
 shall have no right to nominate a separate list of candidates on its own behalf. In
 case of election of the Council of Elders of Yerevan the electoral list of a political

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 party (alliance of political parties) running in elections shall include at least
 25 candidates, whereas in case of elections of the Councils of Elders of Gyumri,
 Vanadzor — at least 15 candidates. The number of candidates included in the
 electoral list of a political party (alliance of political parties) running in elections may
 not exceed the 3-fold of the number prescribed by this Code for mandates of
 members of the Councils of Elders of Yerevan, Gyumri and Vanadzor, respectively.

 In the electoral list of a political party (alliance of political parties) and each of the
 political parties included in the alliance, the number of representatives of each
 sex, starting from the 1st place on the list, must not exceed 70 per cent in each
 integer group of 3 (1-3, 1-6, 1-9 and subsequently up to the end of the list).

 The electoral list of a political party (alliance of political parties) may include also
 persons that are not members of that political party (any of the member political
 parties to the alliance), the number of which may not exceed 30 per cent of the
 total number of candidates included in that electoral list.

3. The following shall be attached to the application of a political party (alliance of
 political parties) for running in elections of the Councils of Elders of Yerevan,
 Gyumri and Vanadzor:

 (1) the statute of the political party (statutes of political parties included in the
 alliance of political parties);

 (2) the decision of the permanently functioning governing body of the political
 party (decisions of permanently functioning governing bodies of the
 member political parties to the alliance) on approving and nominating the
 electoral lists for the elections of the Councils of Elders of Yerevan, Gyumri
 and Vanadzor;

 (3) the electoral list, which under consecutive numbers shall include the
 surname, name, patronymic, date of birth, sex, party affiliation of
 candidates, personal identification document number, place of registration,
 place of employment and position (occupation);

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 (4) a statement of information proving that the candidate has been registered
 in the population register of Yerevan, Gyumri, Vanadzor, respectively
 under the time limits prescribed by part 2 of Article 2 of this Code. The
 statement of information referred to in this point shall be issued by the
 authorised body within a 3-day period following the request but no earlier
 than before calling elections. The form of the statement of information shall
 be prescribed by the Central Electoral Commission. The authorised body
 shall, upon its decision, reject the issuing of the statement of information of
 the specified form to the applicant, if the data thereon do not meet the
 requirements provided for by part 1 of Article 126 of this Code;

 (5) written statement of the candidate regarding the consent to be registered
 as a candidate for member of the Councils of Elders of Yerevan, Gyumri,
 Vanadzor;

 (6) separate electoral list submitted by each of the political parties included in
 the alliance of political parties;

 (7) the receipt for payment of an electoral deposit in the amount of 3 000-fold
 of the minimum salary in case of the Council of Elders of Yerevan, the
 receipt for payment of an electoral deposit in the amount of 2 000-fold of
 the minimum salary in case of the Councils of Elders of Gyumri and
 Vanadzor;

 (8) carbon copies of personal identification documents of the candidates.

4. Data on up to 3 authorised representatives (surname, name, patronymic, date of

 birth, personal identification document number, place of employment, position)

 shall be specified in the application for running in elections submitted by the

 political party (alliance of political parties) running in elections.

 Documents necessary for the registration of the electoral list of a political party
 (alliance of political parties) running in elections shall be submitted to the
 relevant electoral commission only personally by the authorised representative of

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 the political party (alliance of political parties) within the time limits prescribed by
 this Code.

5. Where errors, deletions, erasures, misprints are found in documents submitted
 for registration of the electoral list of the political party (alliance of political
 parties) running in elections, the electoral commission shall be obliged to bring
 them to the attention of persons submitting such documents so as to correct
 them, as well as correct itself, in their presence, evident errors, misprints
 existing in the submitted documents.

 The electoral commission shall not have the 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 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 electoral commission shall give 48 hours for eliminating the
 mentioned inaccuracies, completing the attached documents.

 In case of failure to eliminate inaccuracies in the electoral list of a political party
 (alliance of political parties), regarding a candidate included in the electoral list,
 or in case of failure to complete the documents, the registration of the electoral
 list shall be rejected, and, if a candidate is included in the electoral list, his or
 her name shall be removed from the electoral list as prescribed by the Central
 Electoral Commission.