Examination of the provincial lists of candidates

(1) The provincial elections authority has to immediately verify whether the submitted provincial list of candidates has either been signed by at least three members of the National Council or has been supported by the number of persons entitled to vote from the provincial constituency as specified in § 42, para

2. The provincial elections authorities have to further verify whether the candidates proposed in the regional and provincial party lists are eligible to be voted. When a person entitled to vote has supported more than one provincial list of candidates, the provincial elections authorities only have to accept as valid their support of the list of candidates which has been submitted the first.
The support of the other provincial lists of candidates is in this case considered invalid.

(2) A withdrawal of individual declarations of support after the provincial list of candidates has been submitted is not to be taken into consideration by the provincial elections authorities, except in the case when the person who gave the declaration can present credible evidence to the provincial elections authorities that they have only given their support to the list of candidates because of a considerable mistake or because of will-full deceit or of being threatened, and when the withdrawal of the declaration of support has been undertaken not later than on the fifty-fifth day before the election day.

(3) When a provincial list of candidates does not have the necessary number of declarations of support (§ 42, para 2) or it does not, with the exception of the regional party lists, fulfil the requirements set out in § 43, para 1 it has to be rejected by the provincial elections authorities not later than on the fifty-second day before the election day. Regional party lists which do not fulfil these requirements are to be considered invalid by the provincial elections authorities and are not to be published according to § 49, para 1. Candidates who are not eligible to be voted or who have not submitted a written declaration (§ 43, para 2) are to be crossed out of the respective list of candidates.
The authorized recipient of the party concerned is to be informed of this.