Presentation of candidates for elections to Congress of Deputies and to Senate

1. Each Provincial Electoral Commission shall be the Electoral Commission having jurisdiction for all proceedings provided for in Part I, Chapter V, 2nd Subdivision, of this Act in elections to the Congress of Deputies and to the Senate.

2. Every candidature must be submitted in the form of a list of candidates.

3. Presentation of candidates by groupings of electors shall require at least the signature of 1 per 100 (one per cent) of persons listed in the electoral register for the constituency. Parties, federations or coalitions who have not obtained a mandate in either House of Parliament at the preceding elections must secure at least the signature of 0.1 per 100 of electors entered in electoral register of the constituency for which they are seeking election. No elector may sign for more than one list of candidates.

4. Lists of candidates so presented and candidatures proclaimed for all constituencies are to be published in the State’s Official Gazette

 3 AS AMENDED BY SECT. 51 OF INSTITUTIONAL ACT 2/2011, OF JANUARY 28