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Article 22
 

Nominated slates must be submitted to the State Electoral Commission of the Republic of Croatia (hereinafter: State Electoral Commission) at the latest within 14 days of the day on which the decision to call elections in Article 5 of this Act enters into force.


With Article 21, paragraph 1 of the AAAERCSP (Official Gazette 53/03), which entered into force on 2 April 2003, the words: "or the County election commission" were deleted.


With Article 15 of the Act on Amendments to the Act on the Elections of Representatives to the Croatian Parliament (Official Gazette 19/15), which entered into force on 25 February 2015, paragraph 1 was partly amended.


The nomination of an electoral constituency slate for the election of representatives to the Parliament must include the name of the slate, and the candidates must be numbered on the slate from 1 to 14.


With Article 21, paragraph 2 of the AAAERCSP (Official Gazette 53/03), which entered into force on 2 April 2003, the words: "House of Representatives of the Parliament" were replaced with the word: "Parliament".


With Article 21, paragraph 3 of the AAAERCSP (Official Gazette 53/03), which entered into force on 2 April 2003, paragraph 3 was deleted.


The name of the slate is the full name(s) of the political party or of the two or more political parties that nominated the slate. If political parties use an abbreviated name of the party or parties, the abbreviations may be used in the name.


With Article 15 of the Act on Amendments to the Act on the Elections of Representatives to the Croatian Parliament (Official Gazette 19/15), which entered into force on 25 February 2015, in former paragraph 4 that became paragraph 3, certain words were replaced and some of the words were deleted.


If a slate has been nominated by a voter group, it shall be known as the "independent slate".


Deleted.


With Article 15 of the Act on Amendments to the Act on the Elections of Representatives to the Croatian Parliament (Official Gazette 19/15), which entered into force on 25 February 2015, former paragraph 6 that became paragraph 5 was deleted.


A candidate may only be nominated on one slate in one electoral constituency.


With Article 15 of the Act on Amendments to the Act on the Elections of Representatives to the Croatian Parliament (Official Gazette 19/15), which entered into force on 25 February 2015, former paragraph 6 became paragraph 5, which was formerly paragraph 7.