§ Article 33(untitled)

onditions of Candidate Nomination

 1. Election commission is notified of nomination of candidate (candidates), including in
the list of candidates, in the order established by the law.
(Clause 1 as amended by the Federal Law of December 5, 2006, No.225-FZ)

 2. Corresponding election commission is considered notified, and candidate is
considered nominated, acquires the rights and responsibilities of a candidate provided for by
this Federal Law, another law after a corresponding election commission receives a written
application of nominated person with his consent to stand for election in corresponding electoral
district and commitment not to participate in activity incompatible with status of a deputy or with
occupation of other elective position. This application shall contain surname, first name and
patronymic; date and place of birth; residential address; series, number and data of issue of
passport or document equivalent to citizen’s passport, name or code of body that issued
passport or document equivalent to citizen’s passport; education; main place of work or service;
position (occupation, if there is no main place of work or service). If a candidate is a deputy and
exercises his powers on a temporary basis, this application shall contain information on this and
the name of corresponding representative body. A candidate may indicate in his application his
membership in a political party or not more than one other public association registered not
later than in one year prior to the voting day in the order established by the law and his status in
such political party, public association on condition of presentation together with application of a
document confirming this data and officially certified by permanent operating leading body of
political party, other public association, or permanent operating leading body of structural
subdivision of political party, other public association authorized by statute of political party,
other public association. Together with application a candidate shall present a copy of passport
of document equivalent to citizen’s passport, copies of documents confirming the data on
education, main place of work or service, position (occupation) stated in application, as well as
on candidate being a deputy.
(as amended by the Federal Laws of December 5, 2006, No.225-FZ, of April 5, 2009, No.42-
FZ)

 21 If a candidate has a conviction that is not withdrawn or spent, it shall be stated in
application referred to in Clause 2 of this Article.
(Clause 21 as amended by the Federal Law of July 25, 2006, No.128-FZ)

 3. Together with the notice referred to in Clause 2 of this Article, corresponding election
commission shall be provided with information on amount and sources of income of candidate
(each candidate in the list of candidates), and on any property owned by candidate (each
candidate in the list of candidates) (including joint property), on deposits in banks, securities.
The information on amount and sources of income shall be submitted in the form in accordance
with Annex 1 to this Federal Law that may include additional information when it is established
by federal law. Federal law may also require submission of data on amount and sources of
income of property of candidate’s spouse.
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(as amended by the Federal Laws of July 21, 2005, No.93-FZ, of December 5, 2006, No.225-
FZ, of October 4, 2010, No.263-FZ)

 4. At elections of deputies of representative bodies of municipal formation where
electoral districts are formed in accordance with the average quota of voters’ representation
that does not exceed five thousand voters, candidates do not need to submit to corresponding
election commission the information specified in Clause 3 of this Article unless otherwise
provided by the law of the subject of the Russian Federation.
(as amended by the Federal Law of July 21, 2005, No.93-FZ)

 5. A candidate (except candidates nominated in the list of candidates) shall personally
submit documents specified in Clauses 1, 2 and 3 of this Article. The documents specified in
Clauses 1, 2 and 3 of this Article may be submitted, at the request of the candidate, by other
persons, if the candidate is ill, held in detention as a suspect or defendant (in this case the
candidate's signature in the statement shall be notarized or certified by administration of the
hospital in which the candidate is being treated or the administration of the detention place
where he is held as a suspect or defendant), in other cases specified by a federal law.
(as amended by the Federal Law of July 21, 2005, No.93-FZ)

 51 In case of nomination of a disabled person as candidate, including in the list of
candidates, who is not able to write an application with consent to stand for election in
corresponding electoral district, certify signatures’ list, fill in or certify other documents stipulated
by the law, this person is entitled to use help of another person. Powers of a person providing
assistance with filling in or certifying documents referred to in Clauses 2 or 3 of this Article shall
be notarized.
(Clause 51 introduced by the Federal Law of July 21, 2005, No.93-FZ)

 6. Election commission shall apply to relevant bodies with a request to verify the data on
candidates provided under Clauses 2, 21 and 3 of this Article and such body shall inform on the
results of verification of data provided under Clauses 2 and 21 of this Article within ten days, and
data provided under Clause 3 of this Article – within 20 days. If this application was submitted in
ten or less days prior to the voting day, corresponding bodies shall inform on verification results
in term established by election commission.
(Clause 6 as amended by the Federal Law of July 21, 2005, No.93-FZ)

 7. Election commission shall communicate to voters the data on candidates that they
provided at the time of their nomination within the scope established by the election
commission organizing the election.

 8. Election commission shall communicate to the mass media the data on inaccuracy of
information provided by candidates.

 9. The period that is established by the law for nomination of candidates, lists of
candidates, and collection of voter signatures in support of nominated candidates, lists of
candidates or other forms of support of nomination shall be at least 40 days (in the event of an
early election, at least 30 days) at elections of federal bodies of state power, at least 30 days at
elections of bodies of state power of the subjects of the Russian Federation, and at least 20
days at elections of bodies of local self-government.