Peculiarities of the Preparation and Conduct of Extraordinary Elections of the President of Ukraine
1. The reasons and procedure for calling, and the terms for conducting extraordinary elections to the President of Ukraine shall be determined respectively by part three of article 15, part two of article 16 and parts four to six of article 17 of this Law.
2. The territorial election districts formed for conducting the previous elections of the President of Ukraine shall be used for conducting the extraordinary elections of the President of Ukraine.
3. Election precincts for conducting extraordinary elections (except for exceptional cases specified in part ten of article 20 of this L law) shall be formed at least fifty days prior to the day of elections in accordance with the procedure established by this Law.
4. Territorial election commissions shall be formed no later than seventy days prior to the day of elections according to the procedure established by this Law upon submissions from parties (blocs) made to the Central Election Commission no later than eighty days prior to the day of elections.
5. Polling station election commissions (except for exceptional case specified in part six of article 24 of this law) shall be formed no later than thirty-three days prior the day of elections in accordance with the procedure established by this Law. Submissions of candidacies for the polling station election commissions shall be made to the territorial election commission no later than thirty-five days prior to the day of elections.
6. The nomination of candidates shall begin the day after the day specified in clauses 1 to 4 of part four of article 17 of this Law and shall end fifty-five days prior to the day of extraordinary elections. The submission of documents to the Central Election Commission for the registration of candidates shall end fifty days prior to the day of extraordinary elections. The repeat submission of documents according to part four of article 52 of this Law shall end forty-five days prior to the day of repeat elections.
7. No less than two hundred and fifty thousand signatures in support of the candidate to the post of President of Ukraine must be collected, including no less than 10 thousand signatures in each of two-thirds of the regions (the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, the oblasts and the cities of Kyiv and Sevastopol) of Ukraine. The signature sheets shall be submitted to the Central Election Commission no later than thirty days prior to the day of elections.
8. The lists of voters shall be compiled by executive bodies of village, settlement , and city councils (for cities having no district councils), and district councils within cities, or by the bodies (officials) , who according to law execute their powers, on the basis of the lists of voters for the last voting in elections of the people's deputies of Ukraine, in elections of the President of Ukraine, or in an all-Ukrainian or local referendum, pursuant to the form established by the Central Election Commission. The aforementioned bodies shall update these lists and no later than twenty days prior to the day of elections deliver them to polling station election commissions of ordinary election precincts. Polling station election commissions shall carry out the update of the lists of voters according to the procedure established by in article 34 of this Law.
9. Lists of voters in special and foreign election precincts shall be compiled according to the procedure envisaged in article 35 of this Law.
10. The pre-election campaign shall begin thirty-five days prior to the day of extraordinary elections and shall be conducted according to the procedure established by this Law.
11. The Central Election Commission shall no later than thirty days prior to the day of elec tions approve the form and text of the election ballot to be used for voting in extraordinary elections.
