Article 14 then discusses the election of the remaining two CEC members. It includes three steps: nomination of lists by groups of MPs, collection of support signatures for the lists, and vote. The right to nominate candidates for the remaining two CEC seats belongs to groupings of MPs from the smaller political parties’ of the majority/opposition in the Assembly. The term “grouping” used in the code does not refer to parliamentary groups but to any group of at least two MPs who can belong to different parliamentary groups, except those of the two largest parties, as long as they are on the same side of the political spectrum. Concerning these two CEC slots, “The proposing grouping presents a list with no less than two candidacies for the respective vacancy.” It is not clear why the phrase “no less than two” is used since only two vacancies remain and the subsequent voting is done on the basis of “lists of candidates”. There are no requirements regarding the sex of the candidates for these two positions. The text of Article 14 then provides:
The list of candidates that has accumulated the highest number of supporting signatures of deputies of the respective parliamentary groups of the parliamentary majority and opposition, including also the deputies of the two biggest parties from each grouping, is presented to the Assembly for voting. If two or more lists have accumulated the same number of supporting signatures, all the candidacies included in these lists are presented for voting.
