Article 89. Peculiarities of the Preparation
and Conduct of Repeat Elections
1. The reasons and , procedure for calling
and the terms for conduct ing repeat elections
to the President of Ukraine is specified respectively
by part four of article 15, part three of
article 16 and parts seven to nine of article
17 of this law.
2. The repeat election s of the President
of Ukraine shall be conducted by the same
polling station and territorial election commissions
and in the same election precincts that during
the last ordinary (extraordinary) elections.
If necessary, changes in the membership of
the election commissions shall be made according
to the procedure envisaged by this law.
3. When conducting repeat elections of the
President of Ukraine, the lists of voters
shall be compiled based on the lists of voters,
which were used during the last regular (extraordinary)
elections. Adjustments of the lists of voters
shall be made according to the procedure envisaged
by this Law.
4. The nomination of candidates shall begin
the day after the beginning of the election
process , and shall end fifty-five days prior
to the day of repeat elections. The submission
of documents to the Central Election Commission
for registering candidates shall end fifty-five
days prior to the day of repeat elections.
The repeat submission of documents according
to part three and four of article 52 of this
Law shall end forty-five days prior to the
day of repeat elections.
5. No less than two hundred and fifty thousand
signatures in support of the candidate to
the post of President of Ukraine signatures
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.
6. The nomination of candidacies for membership
of the territorial election commissions shall
end eighty days prior to the day of elections,
for membership of polling station election
commissions , - thirty-five days prior to
the day of elections. Territorial election
commissions shall be formed at least seventy
days prior to the day of elections, and polling
station election commissions (except for exceptional
cases specified in part six of article 24
of this Law) - no later than thirty-three
days prior the day of elections.
Article 90. 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 commis¬sions
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.
