List of Candidates

(1) List of candidates can be submitted by the political party registered pursuant to a special regulation. The political party submits the list of candidates through its authorised representative in paper as well as in electronic form no later than 90 days before the date of election to the recording clerk of the State Commission. The time limit for the submission of the list of candidates shall end upon the expiry of the last day of the time limit. The lists of candidates, which have not been delivered in the specified way, and the lists of candidates delivered after the expiry of the time limit shall not be taken into account.

(2) For the purpose of elections, political parties can create a coalition and submit a joint list of candidates pursuant to Paragraph 1. The political party, which is part of a coalition, cannot submit list of candidates independently.

(3) The list of candidates contains

a) the name of the political party or names of the political parties creating a coalition,

b) the nominal list of candidates containing the name, surname, degree, date of birth, employment of the candidate at the time of submission of the list of candidates,

c) address of permanent residence of the candidate and the order in the list of candidates expressed by an Arabic numeral for all candidates,

d) the name, surname, position, signature of the person authorised to act on behalf of the political party and the seal of the political party; if a coalition is concerned, the name, surname, position, signature of the person entitled to act on behalf of each political party creating the coalition and the seal of each political party creating the coalition.

(4) The following shall be attached to the list of candidates

a) confirmation of payment of caution money amounting to EUR 1,700,

b) the list of

1. members of the supreme body of the political party according to the registered statutes pursuant to a special regulation with the serial number, name and surname, address of permanent residence and date of birth of each member included in the list, in number equal to at least five times the number of members of the party’s executive body, accompanied by the statement of each member included in the list confirmed by their handwritten signature confirming their membership of the supreme body of the political party according to the registered statutes; the authenticity of the signature must be officially certified, at the earliest on the date of publishing of the decision on the announcement of elections in the Collection of Laws of the Slovak Republic or

2. members of the political party in number equal to at least two times the number of candidates included in the list of candidates of the political party with the serial number, name and surname, address of permanent residence and date of birth of each member, accompanied by the statement of each member of the political party included in the list confirmed by their handwritten signature confirming their membership of the political party; the authenticity of the signature must be officially certified, at the earliest on the date of publishing of the decision on the announcement of elections in the Collection of Laws of the Slovak Republic,

c) the notice of determination of the authorised representative of the political party or coalition and their substitute including the name, surname and address, to which papers can be delivered; the acts of the authorised representative in electoral matters are binding on the political party or coalition; no candidate may act as the authorised representative of a political party or coalition or their substitute,

d) the statement of each candidate listed in the list of candidates, which must be confirmed by the handwritten signature of the candidate, in which

1. the citizen of the Slovak Republic provides their name, surname, degree, date and place of birth, address of permanent residence, that they agree with their candidature, that they do not candidate in other list of candidates in the territory of the Slovak Republic or other Member State of the European Union and have no obstacles to the right to vote,

2. the citizen of other Member State provides their name or names, surname, date and place of birth, nationality and address of permanent residence in the territory of the Slovak Republic, the last address of residence in the Member State of the European Union, he/she is a citizen of, the constituency in the Member State of the European Union, he/she is a citizen of, in which he/she was last time included in the electoral roll, that he/she agrees with standing as a candidate, that he/she does not stand as a candidate in other list of candidates in the territory of the Slovak Republic or other Member State of the European Union, that he/she has no obstacles to the right to vote and has not been deprived of the right to be elected in elections in the Member State of the European Union of which he or she is a national. 

(5) The political party or coalition may provide maximum as many candidates in the list of candidates as the number of Members of the European Parliament to be elected for the Slovak Republic to the European Parliament.

(6) The political party may provide its graphic image in the list of candidates; graphic images of the political parties creating a coalition may be provided in the list of candidates of the coalition.

(7) If a coalition is concerned, each political party creating a coalition shall attach the list pursuant to Paragraph 4 (b) of Point 1 or Point 2.

(8) The recording clerk of the State Commission determines whether the submitted lists of candidates contain the particulars pursuant to Paragraph 3 and whether they are accompanied by papers pursuant to Paragraph 4. If this is not the case, the recording clerk of the State

Commission shall call upon the authorised representative of the political party or coalition to modify or supplement the list of candidates within a specified period. The recording clerk of the State Commission submits the lists of candidates to the State Commission for review and registration in its first session.

(9) Once the list of candidates has been submitted, it is not possible to add any other candidates or to change their order.

(10) If the political party or coalition provide a citizen of other Member State as a candidate in their list of candidates, the State Commission shall notify it to the Ministry of Interior without undue delay. The Ministry of Interior shall immediately send to the other Member State of the European Union information on the candidature of its citizen in the territory of the Slovak Republic with the application for verification of the citizen’s statement that he/she has not been deprived of the right to be elected in elections of the Member State of the European Union of which he or she is a national.

(11) The Ministry of Interior shall verify the statement of a citizen of the Slovak Republic, who stands as a candidate in the territory of other Member State of the European Union, that he/she has not been deprived of the right to be elected in the territory of the Slovak Republic, and it shall send the result of verification to the Member State of the European Union, in which the citizen of the Slovak Republic stands as a candidate, within five days from the delivery of the application.

(12) The caution money is paid to an extra-budgetary account opened by the Ministry of Interior for that purpose; the number of the account shall be published by the Ministry at its website. The Ministry of Interior shall return the paid caution money within one month after the election results announcement to the political party or coalition, whose list of candidates was not registered or to the political party or coalition that obtained at least two percent of the total number of the votes validly cast. The caution money, which is not returned, represents the State Budget income.