The above text distinguishes two steps: proposition and selection. It may be subject to different interpretations. For the proposition step, it would appear that the deputies of the proposing subjects offer as many candidates as they desire, but no less than two for each candidacy. This results in at least eight candidates. Then, it would appear, the two chairpersons of the proposing groups, i.e. the chairpersons of the parliamentary groups of the largest party of the majority and of the largest party of the opposition, “collegially” narrow the number of candidates to four. In practice, this gives the main opposition party a right to select two names from a pool proposed by the main party of the majority, and vice-versa. It is unclear whether the requirement for “one candidature from each sex” applies to the selection of the remaining four candidates, or only to the selection made by the proposing subjects under letter (a) of Article 14. However, it could also be argued the phrase “one candidature from each sex” should be interpreted to mean that each proposing subject of the first four nominations has one female CEC slot and one male CEC slot, which should result in two female members on the CEC because there will be two women in the remaining four candidates.
