Nomination of Candidates for Community leader and Council Member
1. Citizens have the right to be nominated as candidates for community leader and the council member by self- nomination, upon submitting to the relevant Territorial Electoral Commission an application and a receipt on the payment of the electoral deposit; in the communities with up to 5,000 voters it makes fifty times the minimum salary for the community leader, and ten times – for the council member; in the communities with over 5,000 voters it makes one hundred times the minimum salary for the community leader, and twenty times – for the council member
2. In the event of being elected as the community leader, as well as getting more than five per cent of votes cast for the candidates, the sum of the electoral deposit of the candidate is paid back. In the event of getting less than five per cent of votes, the sum of the electoral deposit is transferred to the state budget.
3. In the event of being elected as a council member, as well as getting more than five per cent of votes cast for the candidates in the constituency, the sum of the election deposit is paid back. In the event of getting less than five per cent of votes, the sum of the electoral deposit is transferred to the state budget.
4. In the application on self-nomination, the citizen notifies his/her last name, first name, patronymic, year, month and date of birth, place of registration, place of work, position (occupation) and party affiliation.
5. The citizen, who is nominating himself/herself, encloses together with the submitted application:
1) Receipt on the payment of the electoral deposit;
2) Reference on citizenship of the Republic of Armenia for the last one year;
3) Reference on being registered in the given community and in the city of Yerevan the citizen running for district community leader or council member- reference that he/she has been registered in the city Yerevan for the past year.
4) Declaration about his/her private property and his/her and his/her family members’ income for the last one year.
6. References mentioned in the sub-points two and three, of point five of this Article are allocated to the citizen nominating himself/herself for the candidate by the authorized state body, within three days after the application has been presented, in the procedure established by the Central Electoral Commission.
7. The above-mentioned documentation is submitted by the self-nominating candidate for the community leader and council member in person or through his/her plenipotentiary representative.
8. A candidate for the community leader can be nominated in one community only. A candidate for the council member can be nominated in one constituency only.
(Amend. of March 23, 1999 LA-286; July 31, 2002 LA-406-P)
