§ Art. IV-216General Procedure for Nominating Candidates for Local Council and Candidates for

Village, Settlement and City Mayor
 1. The nomination of candidates for village, settlement or city mayor shall begin forty days
prior to the day of voting and shall end thirty days prior to the day of voting.
 2. The right to nominate candidates to the Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomous Republic of
Crimea, and to oblast, rayon, rayon in city councils, as well as city, village and settlement councils
(of territorial communities with up to 10,000 voters) shall be exercised by voters through the local
party organizations (hereinafter, a party organization) in accordance with the procedure specified
by this Code.
 The right to nominate candidates to village, settlement or city council (of a territorial community
with up to 10,000 voters) shall be exercised by the voters through the party organizations or through
self-nomination in accordance with the procedure specified by this Code.
 The right to nominate candidates for village, settlement or city mayor shall be exercised by voters
through the party organizations or through self-nomination, in accordance with the procedure specified
by this Code.
 3. A party organization shall be entitled to nominate candidates in the respective election
under the condition that the respective party organization has been registered pursuant to the
procedure prescribed by the Law. A party organization shall not be entitled to the status of an
electoral subject if a central executive power body that implements the state policy in the area of state
registration of legal entities, registration (legalization) of public associations, civic unions or other civic
formations, has made a decision declaring, in accordance with the procedure established by the Cabinet
of Ministers of Ukraine, the party organization’s or the party’s activities, name and/or symbols as such
that fail to comply with the requirements of the Law of Ukraine “On Condemnation of Communist and
National Socialist (Nazi) Totalitarian Regimes in Ukraine and Prohibition of their Symbols.”

 

 4. A person may be nominated as a candidate in a multi-member district at no more than two
levels of local councils.
 A person nominated as a candidate for the position of village, settlement or city mayor may not at
the same time be nominated in any other unified single-member election district for any local elections.
 A person nominated as a candidate for the position of village, settlement or city mayor (of a city
with up to 75,000 voters) may at the same time be nominated as a candidate in a multi-member election
district to the respective village, settlement city council and/or to the respective oblast council.
 A person nominated as a candidate for mayor (of a city with 75,000 or more voters) may at the same
time be nominated as a candidate in a multi-member election district only to the respective city council.
 5. A person, subject to the requirements of part four of this article, may simultaneously be
nominated as candidate for local councils and candidate for the position of village, settlement or city
mayor if nominated by the local organization of one political party only, or by self-nomination only.