The Application of the Independent Candidates:

(First paragraph of 12th Article of Law 4125, amended on 27 October 1995.)

Applications for independent candidature are made to the relevant Provincial Electoral Board along with a letter certifying that the applicant is eligible for candidature according to the present Statute (...)¹ The Provincial Electoral Board issues a certificate for the reception of the application and immediately notifies the Supreme Board of Elections. The Supreme Board of Elections announces the applications of all independent candidates whereas the Provincial Electoral Boards announce the candidatures within their territory through usual ways as temporary lists. 

Those who applied for independent candidature deposit an amount equivalent to the monthly gross sum of all payments made to such civil servants within the scope of financial rights to the responsible sub-division of the treasury, and add the receipt to the documents of their application for candidature.²

(1) The title of this article is amended with the 10th article of Law 4125 on 27 October 1995, and applied to the text accordingly.

(2) With Article 30 of Law 5980 adopted on 8 April2010, the phrase ‘equal to the gross salary of a civil servant of the highest rank’ was changed to ‘an amount equivalent to the monthly gross sum of all payments made to such civil servants within the scope of financial rights’.