Introduction, initial verification and support of the proposals for the provincial election

(1) Each campaigning party has to present its list of candidates for the first and second counting procedure (provincial list of candidates) to the provincial election authority until 5 p.m. on the fifty-eigth day before the election day at the latest; § 122 is not to be applied. After an immediate examination of the provincial list of candidates for apparent faults, the provincial returning officer has to mark on it the exact date and time of its submission. In case the provincial returning officer should become aware of any obvious faults in a proposal for a provincial election submitted in the time period set for the submissions of all such proposals, he/she has to give the respective party on request the possibility to improve their proposal. The improved provincial list of candidates has to also be submitted within the given time period. Only after the improved version of the provincial list of candidates has been submitted should the provincial returning officer mark the date and time of its submission.

(2) Each provincial list of candidates must be signed by at least three members of the National Council or supported by the persons who, on the qualifying date, were registered in the voters’ index of a municipality in the provincial constituency and were entitled to vote (§ 21, para 1), as indicated in the following list: Burgenland and Vorarlberg - 100 people; Carinthia, Salzburg and Tyrol 200; Upper Austria and Styria - 400 and in the provincial constituencies of Lower Austria and Vienna from 500 people. The declarations of support have to be attached to the respective provincial list of candidates. These should be filled in as shown in Schedule 4 and individually composed according to para 3. 

(3) Each declaration of support must contain the confirmation of the municipality that the person named in the declaration was registered in the voters' index and was entitled to vote on the qualifying date (§ 21, para 1). This confirmation of the municipality should only be given when the person named in the declaration of support presents themselves in person to the municipality which issued the respective voters’ index, when the identity of the person has been proved by an identity document containing a photograph of the person (such as for example a passport, an identity card, a driver's license), when the declaration of support contains details of the first name, family name or last name of the person in question, their date of birth and residential address as well as the name of the supported campaigning party. Before giving the required confirmation, the municipality has to make sure that the personal signature of the person giving the declaration of support is put on it either in the presence of the municipal election officials or has been certified by the court or by a notary.

(4) The municipalities are obliged to immediately issue a confirmation according to para 3 without demanding any administrative or other taxes or fees. Such confirmation can only be issued once to any one person.