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Article 239
 

239.1. Once a request for the registration of candidacies has been received by the president or secretary of the corresponding council, it will be veri f ed within the next three days that all the requirements mentioned in the previous article have been complied with.


239.2. If the veri f cation process shows that the compliance with one or several requirements was omitted, this will be noti f ed immediately to the corresponding political party, so that it corrects the omitted requirement(s) or substitutes the candidacy within the next forty-eight hours, as long as this can be done during the periods set out in article 237 of this Law.


239.3. In the case that the political parties exceed the number of simultaneous candidacies mentioned in article 11, paragraphs 2 and 3, of this Law, the Secretary of the General Council, once this has been detected, will require of the political party to inform the electoral authority, within the next forty-eight hours, which candidacies or formulas should be excluded from its lists. If this is not done, the Institute will proceed to cancel from the respective lists the formulas necessary until reaching the limit of candidacies allowed by the law, starting with the simultaneous registrations located in the last place of each one of the lists, one after another, in order, until the previously mentioned number is adjusted.


239.4. Any request or document presented after the periods referred to in article 237 will be dismissed directly and, where applicable, the candidacy or candidacies which do not meet the requirements will not be registered.


239.5. During the three days after the periods referred to in article 239 expire, the General, local and district Councils will hold a session solely to register the appropriate candidacies.


239.6. The local and district councils will immediately inform the General Council of the agreement related to the registration of the candidacies made during the session referred to in the previous paragraph.


239.7. Likewise, the General Council will immediately inform to the local and district councils of the decisions that it has taken regarding the registration of the lists of candidates by the principle of proportional representation.


239.8. At the conclusion of the session referred to in paragraph 5 of this article, the Executive Secretary of the Institute or the local or district executive members, according to the case, will take the necessary measures to make the conclusion of the candidate registration public, providing the names of the registered candidate or formulas and of those that did not meet the requirements.