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Section 120
 

(1) Candidates shall be recommended on recommendation sheets.


(2) Recommendation sheets may be requested by voters who wish to stand as individual candidates at the election and by nominating organisations that have been registered with final and binding effect from the election office at the election commission competent to register the candidate in question after the election date is set.


(3) A request for recommendation sheets shall contain the name of the voter who wishes to stand as a candidate at the election, his personal identifier, or, in the absence thereof, the number of his official identity verification card, his address, and his statement that


a) he accepts the nomination,


b) he has no position giving rise to incompatibility and conflict of interest with a representative’s mandate, or that he will eliminate incompatibility or conflict of interest if elected,


c) he undertakes to return party subsidies within the meaning of the Act on the transparency of campaign costs related to the election of the Members of the National Assembly in case such debts could not be collected from the political party.


(4) Recommendation sheets may be requested only for voters who have the right of suffrage when the request is submitted.


(5) When requesting recommendation sheets


a) a voter who has multiple given names may ask to indicate only one of his given names on the recommendation sheets and ballot papers,


b) a voter may ask not to indicate the “dr.” title that is part of his name on the recommendation sheets and ballot papers.