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Article 80
 

Modification of the candidates’ lists



Electoral competitors shall be entitled to withdraw their candidacy, to withdraw the whole list of candidates, to repeal the decision of including a certain candidate in the list, and the political parties and other social political organizations shall be entitled to leave a certain electoral bloc, withdrawing their candidacies from the lists of the respective bloc, but not later than 5 days before the elections' day.



[Paragraph 1, article 80 as amended by the Law no.268-XIV from 04.02.1999]

 



The decision on the withdrawal of the candidacy or of the candidates’ list shall be taken by the person or formation that nominated him/it, shall be submitted to the Central Elections Commission which shall be bring it to public knowledge.



The candidate may be replaced before the expiration of the candidates’ registration term. The Central Elections Commission shall bring the registration of the new candidate to public knowledge.



If the political party and/or another social-political organization leaves the electoral bloc and withdraws its candidates after the expiration of the registration term, the candidates of that political party and/or another social-political organization shall be excluded and the candidates’ list of that electoral bloc shall be rewritten, observing the order of candidates from the list. Similarly shall be the case when a political party and/or another social-political organization withdraw their candidates from the lists.