Nomination of candidates for member of the community councils of elders in the elections held through the proportional electoral system

(title amended by HO-333-N of 18 June 2020)

1. Political parties shall submit the application for running in elections of the Council of Elders of Yerevan to the Central Electoral Commission, based on the decision of their permanently functioning governing body. The application shall be signed by the head of the political party. Alliances of political parties shall submit the application for running in elections of the Council of Elders of Yerevan to the Central Electoral Commission based on the decisions of the permanently functioning governing bodies of member political parties to the alliance, and the application shall be signed by the heads of all member political parties to the alliance.

Political parties shall submit the application for running in elections of the councils of elders of communities (except for Yerevan) to the district electoral commission, based on the decision of their permanently functioning governing body. The application shall be signed by the head of the political party. Alliances of political parties shall submit the application for running in elections of the councils of elders of communities (except for Yerevan) to the district electoral commission based on the decisions of the permanently functioning governing bodies of member political parties to the alliance, and the application shall be signed by the heads of all member political parties to the alliance.

2. Each political party (alliance of political parties) shall have the right to nominate only 1 electoral list. A political party included in an alliance of political parties shall have no right to nominate a separate list of candidates on its own behalf. In case of election of the Council of Elders of Yerevan the electoral list of a political party (alliance of political parties) running in elections shall include at least 25 candidates, whereas in case of elections of the councils of elders of the remaining communities — at least 15 candidates.

The number of candidates included in the electoral list of a political party (alliance of political parties) running in elections may not exceed the 3-fold of the number prescribed by this Code for mandates of members of councils of elders of communities.

In the electoral list of a political party (alliance of political parties) and each of the political parties included in the alliance, the number of representatives of each sex, starting from the 1st place on the list, must not exceed 70 per cent in each integer group of 3 (1-3, 1-6, 1-9 and subsequently up to the end of the list).

The electoral list of a political party (alliance of political parties) may include also persons who are not members of that political party (any of the member political parties to the alliance), the number of which may not exceed 30 per cent of the total number of candidates included in that electoral list.

3. The following shall be attached to the application of a political party (alliance of political parties) for running in elections of the councils of elders of communities:

(1) the carbon copy (copies) of the charter of the political party (charters of political parties included in the alliance), all pages — sealed and signed by the authorised representative;

(2) the decision of the permanently functioning governing body of the political party (decisions of permanently functioning governing bodies of the member political parties to the alliance) on approving and nominating the electoral lists for the elections of the councils of elders of communities;

(3) the electoral list, which under consecutive numbers shall include the surname, name, patronymic, date of birth, sex, political party affiliation of candidates, personal identification document number, place of registration, place of employment and position (occupation);

(4) a statement of information proving that the candidate has been registered in the population register of the community under the time limit prescribed by part 2 of Article 2 of this Code. The statement of information referred to in this point shall be issued by the authorised body within a 3-day period following the request but no earlier than before calling elections. The form of the statement of information shall be prescribed by the Central Electoral Commission. The authorised body shall, upon its decision, reject the issuance of the statement of information of the specified form to the applicant, if the data thereon do not meet the requirements provided for by part 1 of Article 126 of this Code;

(5) written statement of the candidate regarding the consent to be registered as a candidate for member of the council of elders of the relevant community;

(6) separate electoral list submitted by each of the political parties included in the alliance of political parties;

(7) the receipt for payment of an electoral deposit in the amount of 3 000-fold of the minimum salary in case of the council of elders of the community having more than 300 000 electors, in the amount of 1 500-fold of the minimum salary in case of the council of elders of the community having from 70 001 to 300 000 electors, in the amount of 1 000-fold of the minimum salary in case of the council of elders of the community having from 25 001 to 70 000 electors, in the amount of 500-fold of the minimum salary in case of the council of elders of the community having from 10 001 to 25 000 electors, in the amount of 200-fold of the minimum salary in case of the council of elders of the community having up to 10 000 electors;

(8) carbon copies of personal identification documents of the candidates.

4. Data on up to 3 authorised representatives (surname, name, patronymic, date of birth, personal identification document number, place of employment, position) shall be specified in the application for running in elections submitted by the political party (alliance of political parties) running in elections.

Documents necessary for the registration of the electoral list of a political party (alliance of political parties) running in elections shall be submitted to the relevant electoral commission only by the authorised representative of the political party (alliance of political parties), in person, within the time limits prescribed by this Code.

5. Where errors, deletions, erasures, misprints are found in documents submitted for registration of the electoral list of the political party (alliance of political parties) running in elections, the electoral commission shall be obliged to bring them to the attention of persons submitting such documents so as to correct them, as well as correct itself, in their presence, evident errors, misprints existing in the submitted documents.

The electoral commission shall not have the right not to accept the submitted documents only for the reason that they contain such errors, deletions, erasures, or misprints. The provisions of this part shall not apply to correction of errors, deletions, erasures, misprints or elimination of other deficiencies found in the documents, the right whereof is reserved by law to the bodies having adopted or issued such documents.

In case the submitted documents contain inaccuracies referred to in the second paragraph of this part or in case of incompleteness of documents attached to the application, the electoral commission shall give 48 hours for eliminating the mentioned inaccuracies, completing the attached documents.

In case of failure to eliminate inaccuracies in the electoral list of a political party (alliance of political parties), regarding a candidate included in the electoral list, or in case of failure to complete the documents, the registration of the electoral list shall be rejected, and, if a candidate is included in the electoral list, his or her name shall be removed from the electoral list as prescribed by the Central Electoral Commission.

(Article 130 amended, edited by HO-333-N of 18 June 2020)

(Law HO-333-N of 18 June 2020 contains a transitional provision relating to the Article)