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Article 49
 

(1) The provincial electoral authority shall make final the election proposals on the thirty-first day before the day of election at the latest. In case a provincial party list or regional party list contains too many persons campaigning, these persons shall be deleted. Subsequently the election proposals shall be made public.

(2) Faults in the election proposals found after the public announcement do not affect the validity of these election proposals.

(3) In the public announcement according to al. 1 the sequence order of the parties being represented in the previously elected National Council shall reflect the number of seats won by the parties in the previous National Council election in the entire federal territory. If the number of seats is equal, the sequence order is determined according to the total of party votes ascertained in the previous National Council election; if these are also equal the federal electoral authority shall decide by means of lots to be drawn by its youngest member. The sequence order so ascertained shall be notified by the federal electoral authority to the provincial electoral authorities on the thirtieth day before the day of election at the latest, and is binding on the provincial electoral authorities.

(4) Subsequent to the parties listed according to al. 3 the other campaigning parties shall be listed, with their sequence order being determined by the date of the submission of their election proposal. In case election proposals were submitted simultaneously the provincial electoral authority shall decide on the sequence order by means of lots to be drawn by its youngest member.

(5) The words "list 1, 2, 3, etc." shall be put in front of the distinctive party names according to the current numbering. If a party being represented in the previously elected National Council does not participate in the election campaign, the public announcement shall only contain the list number, belonging to it according to al. 3, and next to it the word "empty".

(6) The public announcement shall be effected in the usual local manner. All list numbers and the contents of the election proposal (§ 43 al. 1 items 1 to 3) shall be contained therein in full.

(7) The party names of all campaigning parties including possible abbreviations shall be printed with black ink in equally big letters into rectangular fields equally big for each campaigning party. As for the abbreviations big black, uniform letters are to be used. In front of each party name the word "list" and below that, in a bigger size, the respective current number shall be added. With party names exceeding three lines the size of the letters can be adjusted according to the space available.