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In a democracy the ruling principle must be that the people’s vote must be respected at all times, subject to the Constitution: therefore people have voted on a party list which is known in advance and it is unacceptable for that list to be changed subsequent to the exercise of the will of the people in the electoral process, notwithstanding the fact that this process is fundamentally based on a vote for political formations rather than for an individual candidate: the parties presented a list of candidates, and the electorate took its decision on this basis.