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Registered Candidate
A registered candidate who has not been elected as a result of the voting and has received fewer votes than the number established by this federal law or the law of a subject of the Russian Federation, which is determined by the number of voters participating in the voting, must return the funds transferred respectively from the federal budget, the budget of a subject of the Russian Federation, or the local budget to the registered candidate's election fund to the relevant electoral commission1.
A registered candidate is a person who has been registered by the relevant electoral commission as a candidate2;
Federal Law No. 55-FZ dated March 30, 1999, "On Amending and Supplementing the Federal Law 'On the Basic Guarantees of Electoral Rights and the Right to Participate in a Referendum of Citizens of the Russian Federation' dated March 30, 1999, as amended on March 30, 1999, Article 1, paragraph 30 // Official Gazette of the Russian Federation. 1999. No. 14. Article 1653. ↩
Federal Law of June 12, 2002 No. 67-FZ "On the Basic Guarantees of Electoral Rights and the Right to Participate in a Referendum of Citizens of the Russian Federation", as amended on June 12, 2002, Article 2, paragraph 36 // RSZ RF. 2002. No. 24. Article 2253. ↩