The electoral authorities’ treatment of the list proposals

(1) The list proposals shall be put on display for public scrutiny as they come in.

(2) The electoral authority in question decides by 1 June in the year of the election whether proposals for electoral lists and withdrawals of list proposals may be approved.

(3) Where a list proposal at the time of its submission does not satisfy the statutory requirements, the electoral authorities shall by means of negotiations with the representatives of the list proposal seek to bring the proposal into conformity with statute law. The same applies to notice of withdrawal of any list proposal.

(4) If it is unclear who is entitled to represent a registered political party at the local level the electoral authorities shall obtain and use as their basis a statement from the party’s executive body, cf. section 3 (2) litre b of the Political Parties Act.

(5) The electoral authorities shall inform all candidates on the list proposals of the fact that they have been placed on a list proposal and of entitlement to apply for exemption. Any signatory or any candidate who appears on more than one list proposal for the same election shall be ordered to give notice within a specified time limit of the proposal on which he or she wishes to appear. Otherwise the person in question is to be placed on the list proposal that was submitted first.

Amended by Act No. 39 of 15 June 2018.