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1. Territorial election commissions shall be formed upon submissions of local party
organizations registered in accordance with the procedure established by the Law, consisting of no
less than nine and no more than eighteen persons.
 2. The following subjects may appoint nominees to territorial election commissions:
 1) a local organization of a party, the establishment of a parliamentary faction of which
 was announced at the first ordinary session of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of the
 current convocation;
 2) a local organization of a political party that has concluded an agreement on political
 cooperation in the respective local elections with an MP group, the formation of which was
 announced at the session of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine no later than January 1 of the
 year in which the elections take place.
 One MP group, the formation of which was announced at the session of the Verkhovna Rada of
Ukraine no later than January 1 of the year in which the elections take place, may conclude only one
agreement on political cooperation in the respective local elections with only one political party.
 The agreement shall be signed by the chair (chairs) of the MP group, the formation of which was
announced at the session of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine no later than January 1 of the year in which
the elections take place, and by the head of the political party with which it was concluded.
 The chair (chairs) of the MP group, the formation of which was announced at the session of the
Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine not later than January 1 of the year in which the elections take place, shall
inform the Verkhovna Rada Secretariat on the conclusion of the respective agreement, no later than
ninety-five days before the day of voting day by a letter to which a copy of the political agreement is
appended.
 The Secretariat of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine shall notify the Central Election Commission of
the conclusion of the respective agreement no later than ninety-one days prior to the day of voting and
shall send a copy of the political agreement;
 3) a local party organization registered pursuant to the Law in the respective
 administrative-territorial unit.
 3. Nominating subjects specified in clause one of Part two of this Article may nominate no
more than two nominees to the respective territorial election commission. Nominating subjects
specified in clauses two and three of Part two of this Article may nominate no more than one
nominee to the respective territorial election commission.
 A territorial election commission shall necessarily include nominees (no more than two persons
nominated to each territorial election commission) from each nominating subject specified in clause
one of Part two of this Article.
 A territorial election commission shall necessarily include nominees (no more than one person
nominated to each territorial election commission) from each nominating subject specified in clause
two of Part two of this Article.

 

 Nominees from local party organizations – no more than one nominees from a local party
organization of one political party specified in clause three of Part two of this Article, shall be included
into territorial election commissions in accordance with the results of drawing lots which is conducted
by the election commission that form the composition of the respective territorial election commission,
pursuant to a procedure established by Central Election Commission prior to the formation of the
commission.
 Persons nominated to a territorial election commission may be rejected only on the grounds of their
noncompliance with the requirements of Article 34 of this Code, violation of the requirements set forth in
Parts two-eleven of this Article, or as a result of the application of the mechanism of drawing lots
specified by this Part.
 A decision to reject nominees based on the results of the lottery shall not be adopted.
 4. The Central Election Commission shall establish the oblast, rayon (except for rayons of the
Autonomous Republic of Crimea), city (cities of oblast subordination and cities of Kyiv and
Sevastopol), and city rayon (in the cities of Kyiv and Sevastopol) election commissions no later
than seventy-five days prior to the day of voting. Candidates for membership in the respective
territorial election commissions may be submitted by an oblast, rayon, city, city rayon in the cities
of Kyiv, Sevastopol (or, in case of their absence in the structure of the respective political party –
by the Kyiv and Sevastopol city) organizations of political parties specified in part two of this
article, and in case of their absence in the structure of the respective political party – by the oblast
organization of this political party in accordance with the existing administrative-territorial
structure. Such submissions shall be filed no earlier than ninety days prior to the day of voting and
no later than eighty days prior to the day of voting.
 5. The Election Commission of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea shall establish rayon (in
rayons of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea) and city (in cities of republican subordination in
the Autonomous Republic of Crimea) election commissions, no later than seventy-five days prior
to the day of voting. Submissions of nominations to the respective territorial election commissions
may be made by the rayon (in rayons of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea) and the city (in
cities of republican subordination in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea) political party
organizations specified in Part two of this Article. Such submissions shall be filed no later than
eighty days prior to the day of voting.
 6. Rayon election commissions shall establish village and settlement election commissions in
the respective rayon no later than sixty days prior to the day of voting. Submissions of nominations
to the respective territorial election commissions may be made by rayon organizations of the
political parties specified in Part two of this Article and, in case of their absence in the structure of
the respective political party, – by the oblast organization of this political party in accordance with
the existing administrative-territorial structure. Such submissions shall be filed no later than sixty-
five days prior to the day of voting.
 7. City election commissions (in cities with rayon division, except for the cities of Kyiv and
Sevastopol) shall establish rayon in city election commissions no later than sixty days prior to the
day of voting. Submissions of nominations to the respective territorial election commissions may
be made by city organizations of the political parties specified in Part two of this Article and in
case of their absence in the structure of the respective political part – by the oblast or, in the
Autonomous Republic of Crimea, republican organization of this political party in accordance with
the existing administrative-territorial structure. Such submissions shall be filed no later than sixty-
five days prior to the day of voting.
 8. The composition of the Election Commission of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea shall
be approved by the Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea no later than eighty-
five days prior to the day of voting, in accordance with the procedure specified by Parts one through
three, nine through sixteen of this Article.

 

 Submissions of nominations to the Election Commission of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea
shall be filed with the Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea no later than eighty-
five days prior to the day of voting.
 9. Submissions of nominations to the territorial election commission shall be filed in a form
established by the Central Election Commission, in both paper and electronic form.
 Submission of nominations to territorial election commission shall be filed with the respective
election commission and shall be signed by a chair of a local party organization and affixed with the
seal of the local party organization, or the seal of a higher-level party organization, or the seal of this
political party.
 Nominations to the territorial election commission may be submitted to the respective election
commission by means of electronic services in accordance with the procedure established by the Central
Election Commission.
 Submissions of nominations shall be appended with: a photocopy of each nominee’s passport of a
citizen of Ukraine (photocopies of the first and second pages of a passport of a citizen of Ukraine in the
form of a passport book, or a photocopy of the front and reverse sides of a passport of a citizen of Ukraine
in the form of a card), or a photocopy of the first and second pages of a person’s temporary certificate
of a citizen of Ukraine (for persons who have recently been granted Ukrainian citizenship).
 Statements of the persons nominated to a territorial election commission, expressing their consent
to participate in the work of an election commission on behalf of the respective nominating subject,
their consent to carry out the official functions as chair, deputy chair or secretary of an election
commission, and their non-consent to participate in the work of an election commission on behalf of
other nominating subjects in the respective elections shall be submitted by the respective nominating
subjects before they file the submission to the respective election commission on the nomination of
members to the composition of the territorial election commission.
 If the respective election commission identifies simultaneous submissions of the same nominee to
a territorial election commission from different subjects of nomination, the election commission shall
request the respective subjects of submission or the nominee proposed to the territorial election
commission to clarify the information and submit a statement of consent to participate in the work of
the territorial election commission from the respective subject of submission. If the consent of a person
to participate in the work of the territorial election commission from the respective subject of
submission is not confirmed, the respective election commission shall reject the nomination of such
person.
 10. Nomination submissions to territorial election commissions shall include the following
information on each nominee:
 1) last name, first name (all first names), patronymic name (if any) of a person;
 2) day, month and year of birth;
 3) citizenship;
 4) educational background;
 5) confirmation of his or her command the state language;
 6) place of employment (occupation) and occupied position;
 7) place of residence (address of residence) as well as contact telephone numbers;
 8) election commission experience;
 9) information on whether the nominee has no criminal record for committing a grave or
 especially grave crime or a crime against citizens’ electoral rights or a corruption crime,
 which has not been lifted or expunged pursuant to the procedure established by law.
 11. Technical errors or inaccuracies contained in a submission shall not constitute a reason for the
rejection of nominees.

 

 In the event if technical errors and inaccuracies are discovered in the surname, name or patronymic
name, or the date of birth indicated in the submission – then the information in the resolution on the
formation of the territorial election commission shall be indicated on the basis of the copies of the
passport documents.
 12. Citizens of Ukraine complying with the requirements of Article 34 of this Code may be
members of a territorial election commission. Should circumstances appear or become known
which shall deprive a person of the right to be a member of the election commission, the powers
of such election commission members may be terminated early by the election commission, which
established the respective territorial election commission.
 13. The election commissions specified in Parts four to eight of this Article shall,
simultaneously with