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Article 100 provides that candidates may withdraw from the parliamentary election, and that nominating parties can cancel their decision to nominate a candidate to the parliamentary election up to two days before election day. Article 84, par. 4 provides that presidential candidates can withdraw their candidatures as late as 12:00 of the day before election day. These deadlines are too short, due to the real possibility of human error or abuse in making amendments by hand to the ballots. As recommended in the previous Joint Opinion[16], a more realistic deadline should be set, one which expires before the ballots have been printed. Additionally, there should be a formal process for candidate withdrawal in all types of elections (Articles 84, 100, and 121) that clearly specifies what actions, including election commission decisions, must be taken for the withdrawal to be effective.