Conditions for Collecting Voters Signatures in Support of Candidates.
Collection of voters signatures in support of candidates nominated by initiative groups of voters or self-nominated candidates shall start from the day the decision provided for in Article 53.6 of this Code is adopted. Collection of voters’ signatures in support of candidates nominated by political parties and blocks of political parties shall start from the date the decision mentioned in Article 54.9 of this Code is adopted.
Signatures of voters in support of candidates should be collected within the area they have been nominated.
Each signature sheet should contain the following information about the candidate:
surname, name, patronymic, date of birth;
main working place or official duty (if he/she does not have them – type of activity);
address of residence;
name (number) of the constituency he/she has been nominated for.
If a candidate has a sentence, which is not served or cancelled, name and number of the relevant Article of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Azerbaijan should be recorded in the signature sheet. If a candidate has committed an action abroad, which imposes a criminal liability, and if the same action imposes liability considered by the Criminal Code of the Republic of Azerbaijan and is sentenced by a court decision, which entered into force, the signature sheet should contain name of the relevant law of the foreign country.
The signature sheet can also contain the name of the political party, which has been recorded in the candidate’s consent to be nominated as a candidate.
If a political party or a block of political parties that nominated a candidate from the relevant constituency collects signatures in support of the candidate, the signature sheet shall along with the information about the candidate contain the name of the political party or the block of political parties which has nominated this candidate; and if there is such an information in the candidate’s application, then the name of the political party the candidate belongs to and the candidate’s status in that political party can be indicated there.
