§ Article 119Determination of sequence numbers for electoral subjects

Determination of sequence numbers for electoral subjects

1. A sequence number shall be determined for an electoral subject 30 days before elections as defined in this article. In order to determine a sequence
number, appropriate procedures shall be conducted in the respective election commission premises in the presence of persons authorised to be present at
the session of the commission.

2. A political union that received the most votes during the previous parliamentary elections held under the proportional system may be the first to
choose a sequence number. A representative of a political union shall file an application with the CEC, whereby the political union shall maintain the
sequence number assigned to it during the previous parliamentary elections or shall take number ‘one’. The political unions that were in second and
third places according to the results of the previous parliamentary elections shall have the right to successively choose a sequence number under the
same procedure. Those political unions may maintain the number assigned to them during the previous parliamentary elections or may choose numbers
‘two’ or ‘three’ accordingly, except when the number assigned to them during the previous parliamentary elections has been assigned to a political union
that placed higher in the previous parliamentary elections.

3. If a sequence number was assigned to an electoral bloc during the previous parliamentary elections, a party nominated first in the electoral bloc list
may use the same number.

4. If political parties having run in the previous parliamentary elections create an electoral bloc for elections, they shall specify in the statute of the bloc
the sequence number that they will use for the party.

5. A sequence number for all electoral subjects shall, except for the political unions referred to in the second paragraph of this article, be determined by
casting lots.

6. In order to cast lots, the commission chairperson shall write numbers corresponding to the number of parties and electoral blocs on sheets of paper of
the same type, size, and shape with the same pen. Each sheet of paper shall be certified by the commission seal. Thereafter, the numbers chosen
according to the second paragraph of this article shall be set aside. All remaining sheets of paper shall be folded so as to make it impossible to read the
numbers written thereon. The CEC Chairperson shall put the sheets of paper in a transparent box and one representative of each party and electoral bloc
shall take one sheet of paper out of the box. The number identified by casting lots shall be assigned to an electoral subject.

7. Majoritarian candidates nominated by a party/electoral bloc shall have the same sequence number assigned to the nominating political party/electoral
bloc.

8. The respective DEC shall assign a sequence number, by casting lots, to the candidate nominated by an initiative group of voters. In order to cast lots,
the commission chairperson shall write numbers corresponding to the number of majoritarian candidates nominated by the initiative group of voters in
the electoral district on sheets of paper of the same type, size, and shape with the same pen. The numbers shall start from the number following the
highest sequence number assigned to parties/electoral blocs running in elections. Each sheet of paper shall be endorsed by the commission seal. All
sheets of paper shall be folded so as to make it impossible to read the numbers written thereon. The commission chairperson shall put the sheets of paper
in a transparent box and one representative of each initiative group of voters shall take one sheet of paper out of the box. The number identified by
casting lots shall be assigned to an electoral subject.

9. If electoral registration of an electoral subject is cancelled, the remaining electoral subjects shall maintain their assigned sequence numbers.

10. Not later than the 25th day before the polling day the CEC shall publish on its official website the lists of registered parties, including the data of

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candidates registered in a majoritarian electoral district that are entered onto a ballot paper.

Organic Law of Georgia No 2093 of 7 March 2014 – website, 14.3.2014