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Article 115
 

Each political alliance represented at least by one parliamentarian in one or the other European, federal, municipal or regional assembly may deliver an application file demanding the protection of an acronym or logo it intends to mention in the presentation documents accordingly to article 116, § 4, sentence 2.


The application file for the acronym or logo shall be signed by at least one parliamentarian mentioned in a line as 1st, member of the political alliance using the acronym or logo. Each of the signers may only sign one application file.


The application file is personally given to the Interior Minister or his deputy by a signing parliamentarian on the 30th day before the elections.


It mentions the acronym or logo the candidates of the political alliance will be using, as well as the name, first names, address of the person and his deputy appointed by that alliance to certify in each electoral constituency that it recognizes only one list of candidates.


§ 2. Immediately after the deposit of the applications demanding the protection of an acronym or logo, at 12am, the minister proceeds to a drawing to determine the common numeral order for the lists with a protected acronym or logo.


The tabulation of the protected acronyms and logos and the numeral order shall be published within four days in the «Moniteur Belge» (official Belgian gazette).


The Interior Minister notifies the chairmen of the central electoral committees of the numeral order, the different protected acronyms or logos as well as the name, first names, addresses of the persons and their deputies from the political alliances having the sole capacity to authenticate the candidates’ lists.


The presentation of those candidates claiming a protected acronym or logo and a position in the common numeral order shall be accompanied by a attestation of the person or his deputy appointed by the political alliance; in absence of such attestation the chairman of the central election committee declines the use of this list with the protected acronym or logo and common numeral order.