Collecting Signatures in Support of a Candidate, including of Independent Candidates, and for initiating a Referendum

(1) Signatures are collected only in support of independent candidates or for initiating a referendum. In local elections, signatures shall be collected only from voters that have their domicile or valid residence in the districts where independent candidates are running for elections.

(2) Only independent candidates and members of a citizen initiative group who nominate and/or support those independent candidates in elections, as well as members of initiative group for initiating a referendum shall have the right to collect signatures.

(3) Lists for collecting signatures in support of an independent candidate, as well as for a referendum, hereinafter referred to as signatures collecting lists, shall include the full name, year of birth, profession (occupation), position, job, domicile and party membership of the candidate, as well as the full name of the person who collects the signatures. The signatures collecting lists shall contain only signatures of voters located in one locality.

(4) A voter who supports the candidate, as well as a person who supports holding a referendum, shall personally fill in the signatures collecting list his/her full name, year of birth, place of residence, ID series and number, date of affixing the signature in the sheet. If the supporter of a candidate, due to objective reasons, cannot fill in the requested private data, the latter shall be filled in by a member of the initiative group or by another person empowered to collect signatures, while the signature in the signatures collecting list shall be affixed by the supporter, and where not possible, by his/her legal representative.

(5) By affixing his/her signature in the sheet a voter may support only one candidate during one scrutiny.

(6) The initiative group member who collects voters’ signatures must sign every sheet of the signatures collecting lists. Signature collectors shall write at the end of each sheet a statement according to which they have personally collected the signatures and confirmed the identity of signatories, and then sign the sheet.