Chapter II, Article 9 · Council Directive (EU) 2026/1194

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Article 9Registration as a candidate#

1.When submitting an application to stand as candidates persons entitled to stand as candidates pursuant to Article 3 shall produce the same supporting documents as candidates who are nationals. The Member State of residence may require those persons to produce a valid identity document, along with a formal declaration stating their name, nationality, date and place of birth and address in the electoral territory of the Member States of residence.

2.The Member State of residence may also require persons entitled to stand as candidates pursuant to of Article 3 to:

(a)state in the formal declaration referred to in paragraph 1 that they have not been deprived of the right to stand as a candidate in their home Member State;

(b)where there is doubt with regard to the content of the formal declaration as referred to in point (a),produce before or after the election an attestation from the competent administrative authorities in their home Member State certifying that they have not been deprived of the right to stand as a candidate in that Member State or that no such deprivation is known to those authorities;

(c)state in the formal declaration referred to in paragraph 1 additional contact details such as a telephone number or email address;

(d)state in the formal declaration referred to in paragraph 1 that they hold no office which is incompatible within the meaning of Article 6(2);

(e)indicate their last address in their home Member State, insofar as they have had one.

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basic local government unit
means an administrative entity as listed in Annex I which, in accordance with the laws of the relevant Member State, contains one or more bodies elected by direct universal suffrage and is empowered to administer, at the basic level of political and administrative organisation, certain local affairs under its own responsibility;
electoral roll
means the official register of all voters entitled to vote in a given basic local government unit or in one of its subdivisions, drawn up and kept up to date by the competent authority under the electoral law of the Member State of residence, or the population register if it indicates eligibility to vote;
formal declaration
means a declaration by the person concerned, inaccuracy in which makes that person liable to penalties, in accordance with the applicable national law.
home Member State
means the Member State of which a Union citizen is a national;
Member State of residence
means the Member State in which a Union citizen resides but of which the Union citizen is not a national;
municipal elections
means elections by direct universal suffrage to appoint the members of the representative council and, where appropriate, under the laws of the relevant Member State, the head and members of the executive of a basic local government unit;
reference date
means the day or the days on which Union citizens have to satisfy, under the law of the Member State of residence, the requirements for voting or for standing as a candidate in that Member State;