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Article 14
 

(Submission of lists of candidates and possibility of coalition among them)



  1. Lists of candidates shall be supported by at least ninety voters, and registered no later than 12:00 a.m. on the fortieth day preceding the election day at the Vital Statistics Office - Population and Electoral Services, which issues a receipt.

  2. Signatures of voters supporting the lists, recorded in a single document or in separate ones, shall be authenticated by a public notary or by the Civil Registrar.

  3. Voters cannot endorse more than one list of candidates and candidates of one list cannot endorse their own list or other lists, under penalty of annulment of signatures. Offenders shall be punished with a pecuniary sanction of EUR 500.00, which shall be applied by the Electoral Commission.

  4. The declaration of submission of a list of candidates shall also indicate one delegate and one alternate delegate, authorised to receive notifications and to decide on replacements according to Art. 16, to participate in the operations of the Central [Electoral] Office, and to designate, no later than 12:00 a.m. on the third day preceding the election day, one representative and one alternate representative of the list in each polling station. The same incompatibilities referred to in Art. 23, paragraph 2 shall also apply to the representatives of the list.

  5. Together with the list, a sample logo of the list, printed or illustrated, shall also be submitted. Lists that are not part of a coalition shall enclose the government programme.

  6. Political forces that are known to use a particular symbol shall submit their lists with a sample logo reproducing such symbol. The lists of candidates cannot reproduce in their logos symbols and/or names that are known to be used by other lists.

  7. If two or more political forces want to form an electoral coalition, their legal representatives, or representatives expressly designated by the lists, shall undersign with notarised signature a specific declaration containing the explicit commitment to form together a government majority for the entire legislature, and containing, even as an annex, the name of the coalition, the coalition logo (if any) and the government programme.

  8. The document for the presentation of the list forming part of a coalition shall explicitly mention the declaration referred to in the previous paragraph, including all possible annexes. Therefore, the signing of the list by its supporters and the acceptance of the candidacy by the candidates shall represent the expression of consent to the forming of the coalition and to its government programme.

  9. The declaration referred to in paragraph 7, including all possible annexes, shall be deposited according to the procedures referred to in paragraph 1.