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Article 43
 

A candidate list for election of councillors or MPs may be accepted if it has been supported by signatures of at least 0.8% of voters out of the number of voters in the electoral district, counting according to the data on the number of voters in the elections which preceded the decision to call for elections, regardless of whether those were elections for the president of Montenegro or parliamentary elections. As an exception to para. 1 of this Article, candidate lists for election of councillors of political parties or groups of voters which represent a minority nation or a minority ethnic community may be accepted if supported by the signatures of at least 150 voters, that is, for election of members of parliament it may be accepted if supported by the signatures of at least 1,000 voters who are exercising the right referred to in Article 94 para. 2 of this Law. In municipalities in which the seat of a councillor in previous elections was equal or less than 150 votes, candidate lists for election of councillors may be accepted if supported by the number of signatures of voters which is less by one compared to the number of votes equal to one councillor seat in the previous elections for the relevant municipal assembly.


A candidate list for election of members of parliament which represents a minority nation or a minority ethnic community which constitutes up to 2% of the Montenegrin population according to the last census results may be accepted if supported by the signatures of at least 300 voters.


Voters who sign lists for election of councillors shall have their place of permanent residence in the territory of the relevant municipality. Voters who sign lists for election of members of parliament shall have their place of permanent residence in the territory of Montenegro.


(Paragraph 6 was repealed).


The State Election Commission shall prescribe the procedure and organisation of gathering voter signatures in support of a candidate list.