(1) The model, sizes and printing conditions of the ballot papers shall be set by Government decision, within 7 days of the setting of the election day, at the proposal of the Permanent Electoral Authority and of the Ministry of the Interior and Administrative Reform.

(2) The order of printing the names of the candidates on the ballot papers shall be set by the electoral bureau of constituency, by successively drawing lots: first for the parliamentary political parties and organisations of citizens belonging to national minorities having their own parliamentary group in both Chambers of the Parliament, and the political or electoral alliances including at least one parliamentary political party, then for the non-parliamentary political parties and political or electoral alliances from among them, then for the organisations of citizens belonging to national minorities. The independent candidates shall be entered on the ballot paper, in its final part, in the order of registration of the candidatures.

(3) The drawing of lots shall be made by the president of the electoral bureau of constituency, within 3 days of the date on which the candidatures remain final, in the presence of one representative of each electoral competitor in the respective constituency. The date, place and time of drawing lots shall be posted up at the seat of the electoral bureau of constituency, with 24 hours in advance. The absence of a representative of an electoral competitor shall not entail the nullity of the drawing of lots. The contestations regarding the result of the drawing of lots for the setting of the order on the ballot papers shall be formulated and instantly submitted, and shall be settled immediately by the electoral bureau of constituency. The decision shall be final.

(4) On the pages of the ballot paper they shall imprint quadrilaterals, in a sufficient number in order to comprise all the candidatures, save the last page, on which they shall lay the control stamp. The pages shall be numbered.

(5) In the upper left angle of the quadrilateral they shall imprint the complete name of the political party, political alliance, electoral alliance, organisation of citizens belonging to national minorities or, as appropriate, the phrase “independent candidate”, and in the upper right angle they shall imprint, as appropriate, the electoral sign. The name of the candidate shall be printed in the centre of the quadrilateral.

(6) The ballot papers shall be stapled.