§ 1. To constitute a political alliance for the designation of the senators of the federated entities, the candidates’ list for the election of the Flemish Parliament or the candidates’ list for the election to the Walloon Parliament and the francophone group of the Brussels Regional Parliament may submit a declaration of correspondence with one or several lists in other electoral constituencies.

§ 2. The declaration is signed by at least two of the three first incumbent candidates on the concerned lists.

The declaration is handed over to the clerk of the Senate who acknowledges receipt, no later than on the 18th day before the election before 4.00pm.

§ 3. The declaration mentioned in the first paragraph is void if:

1° if it tries to create a correspondence with lists from the same electoral constituency;

2° if it creates a correspondence with lists that cannot be taken into consideration for the allocation of the senators’ seats in the federated entities of the same linguistic group;

3° it is not signed according to paragraph 2, 1st sentence;

§ 4. If one of the lists in the declaration is rejected, the declaration is still valid for the other lists of the group.

§ 5. On the 17th day before the election, the clerk of the Senate verifies the validity of the declarations and establishes a list of the corresponding lists. In this table, each group of lists is marked with a letter A, B, C, etc.