Except for the elections for the members of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, a political party shall be exempt from the signature requirement established in Article 4.4 of this law if a member of this political party holds a mandate in the same body that the political party applies to certify to stand for office.
For the purposes of this article the political party shall submit a signed statement from the elected official that he or she was a member of that political party at the time that he or she received the mandate and that he or she is still a member of that party together with the confirmation form.