§ Art. IV-217The Nomination of Candidates by a Party Organization

1. The nomination of candidates for local council and for the position of village, settlement
or city mayor by a party organization shall be conducted pursuant to this Code and the party’s
charter by the decision of the highest governing body of the party on the participation of its local
organizations in the respective ordinary, extraordinary, first, repeat, or by-elections, made after the
decision to call the respective elections.
 In case a political party decides on the participation of its local organizations in the elections of
members to the Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, to oblast, rayon or rayon in
city councils, as well as to city, village or settlement councils (of territorial communities with 10,000
or more voters), or in mayoral elections, such a decision shall also indicate the name of the central
governing body of the party, which will approve the decision of the meeting (conference) of the local
party organization to nominate candidates or the candidate for mayor from the local party organization,
as well as the name, surname, and patronymic name (if any) of the party leaders authorized to certify
with their signatures copies of decisions of meetings (conferences) of the local party organization on
the nomination of candidates for the local council and for mayor from the local party organization.
 A copy of the decision of the highest governing body of the party on the participation of its local
organizations in the respective elections, certified by the signature of the leader and the seal of the party
shall be submitted to the Central Election Commission no later than 48 days before election day.
 The Central Election Commission shall publish the list of political parties that have decided on the
participation of their local organizations in the respective local elections no later than 45 days before
the day of voting day on its official website.
 2. A party organization may nominate as a candidate a person who is either a member of that
party or not a member of any party.
 3. A republican party organization in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea shall be entitled
to nominate a unified republican electoral list of candidates to the Verkhovna Rada of the
Autonomous Republic of Crimea in the election to the Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomous
Republic of Crimea.
 4. An oblast party organization shall be entitled to nominate a unified oblast electoral list of
candidates to the respective oblast council.
 An oblast or, in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, republican organization of a political party
in accordance with the existing administrative-territorial structure may also nominate:
 1) candidates for local councils in elections of the respective rayon, city, rayon in city, village
 or settlement councils (rayons, cities, rayons in cities, villages or settlements that are part
 of the respective oblast or the Autonomous Republic of Crimea in accordance with the
 administrative-territorial structure);

 

 2) no more than one candidate for the position of village, settlement or city mayor (villages,
 settlements or cities that are part of the respective oblast or the Autonomous Republic of
 Crimea in accordance with the administrative-territorial structure).
 5. A city party organization shall be entitled to nominate:
 1) the electoral list of candidates for membership of the corresponding city council;
 2) the electoral list of candidates for membership of the city council (of a city which is a part
 of this city according to the administrative-territorial system);
 3) the electoral list of candidates for membership of the village and/or settlement council
 (villages and settlements that are part of this city in accordance with the administrative-
 territorial structure);
 4) one candidate for city mayor;
 5) no more than one candidate for village, settlement or city mayor (of villages, settlements
 and cities that are parts of this city, in accordance with the administrative-territorial
 structure);
 A city party organization in cities with rayon division, in which city rayon councils were established
shall be entitled to also nominate a list of candidates in the elections of the respective rayon in city
councils.
 In the case of absence of the respective city party organization in the structure of the party, the
republican party organization in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea or the oblast party organization,
in accordance with the administrative-territorial structure, shall be entitled to nominate the list of
candidates to the city council.
 The city organization of a party may not nominate candidates for local councils or candidates for
the position of village, settlement or city mayor provided for in this part if the respective oblast
organization of this political party in accordance with the administrative-territorial structure has decided
to nominate such candidates for the position of village, settlement or city mayor.
 6. A rayon party organization may nominate, and in the absence of a corresponding rayon
organization in the structure of a political party, an oblast or, in the Autonomous Republic of
Crimea, republican organization of a political party in accordance with the administrative-
territorial structure:
 1) the electoral list of candidates for the rayon council;
 2) the electoral list of candidates for the city council (in a city of oblast importance which is a
 part of this area according to the administrative-territorial structure);
 3) the electoral list of candidates for village and settlement council (in a village and settlement,
 which according to the administrative-territorial structure is a part of this rayon);
 4) one candidate each for the position of village, settlement and city mayor of a city of rayon
 importance, which are part of this rayon in accordance with the administrative-territorial
 structure (except for villages or settlements that in accordance with the administrative-
 territorial structure are a part of the city).
 The rayon organization of a party may not nominate candidates for local councils or candidates for
the position of village, settlement or city mayor provided for in this part if the respective oblast
organization of this political party in accordance with the administrative-territorial structure has decided
to nominate such candidates for the position of village, settlement or city mayor.
 The city party organization in a city of rayon importance which, according to the administrative-
territorial structure is part of this rayon, cannot nominate candidates for local council of the
corresponding city council of the city of rayon importance if the corresponding rayon organization of
this political party, according to the administrative-territorial structure, has decided to nominate

 

candidates for membership of the corresponding city council of a city of rayon importance in the manner
provided by this Code.
 7. A rayon in city party organization may nominate a list of candidates in the election of the
respective rayon in city council.
 A rayon in city party organization cannot nominate a list of candidates for the rayon in city council
if the city organization of this political party has adopted a decision to nominate candidates for this
rayon in city council in the manner provided by this Code.