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 Article 68 provides that multi-name lists of candidates may be submitted by a political party or coalition (an electoral subject).  Article 69 allows an individual citizen to be nominated as an electoral subject within 40 days before election day, with the signature support of at least one percent (1%) of the voters in the list of voters of the respective electoral zone. It is understood that “list of voters” should be construed as referring to the preliminary voter lists, as the final voter lists would only be published 25 days before election day. The nomination of an individual is commenced by an “Initiating Committee” composed of no less than nine voters from the respective electoral zone. However, the exemption from signature support requirements granted to parliamentary political parties does not also extend to a candidate, proposed by voters, who holds a mandate in the Assembly. The Venice Commission and the OSCE/ODIHR recommend that the exemption be equally available to a candidate supported by a group of voters if such a candidate already holds a mandate.