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Section 120
 

(1) Support for candidates may be expressed on recommendation sheets.


(2) Recommendation sheets may be requested following the call for elections by voters who wish to become independent candidates and by nominating organisations registered with final effect from the election office operating alongside the election commission with competence to register the candidate.


(3) Requests for recommendation sheets shall contain the name of the prospective candidate, their personal identification number, or, failing that, the number of their identity document issued by an authority, their address and a declaration stating that the candidate


a) accepts the nomination,


b) has no function that is incompatible with being a representative, or will step down from any such positions if elected,


c) is committed to returning the sums paid for the financement of his party – pursuant Act on the transparence of campaign expenditures in an election of Members of Parliament – in the case of those sums being irrecoverable from that political party.


(4) Recommendation sheets may only be requested for voters who have the right to vote at the time of the submission of the request.


(5) When requesting a recommendation sheet


a) a voter bearing several first names may ask for the recommendation sheet and the ballot paper containing only one of their first names


b) a voter may ask for the recommendation sheet and the ballot paper not to contain the title “dr.” of their name.