List of candidates of parties and party coalitions

(amended by Law No. 74/2012, dated 19 July 2012 and points 3 and 6 amended by Law No. 31/2015, dated 2 April 2015; points 5 and 6 am ended by Law No. 101/2020, dated 23 July 2020; points 1 to 5 amended by Law No. 118/2020, dated 5 October 2020)

1. The political party or electoral coalition, in the context of Article 65, which is registered with the CEC as an electoral subject for the elections for the Assembly, shall submit to the CEC the multi-name list of its candidates for each electoral zone no later than 50 days before the election date. For elections for local government bodies, the candidate for mayor of the local government unit and the list of candidates for local councils shall be registered with the CEAZ that covers that local government unit within the deadline set forth in this point. The CEAZ shall submit a copy of the list to the CEC within 48 hours.

2. Pursuant to the second paragraph of point 1 of this Article, the subject’s list shall be submitted to the CEC in cases when the territory of the local government unit is not covered by a single CEAZ.

3. The candidate for deputy, registered in a multi-name list for an electoral zone, or the candidate for mayor or for municipal council member, may not be registered as such for another electoral zone, even on behalf of another party or coalition, nor as a candidate proposed by a group of voters. The exception to this rule shall be the chair of the party or the chair of the party leading the coalition, who may register in up to four electoral zones in the elections to the Assembly. After the distribution of mandates under this law, he/she may not hold more than one mandate, which they choose according to their own free will.

4. The names in the multi-name list of the electoral subject shall be presented in numerical order, starting from number one. The number of candidates in the multi-name list may not be less than the number of seats to be elected in the respective electoral zone, plus two. In any case, the number of candidates in the multi-name list must be divisible by the number three. In the case of coalitions, the party the candidate belongs to shall be indicated next to the name of the candidate.

5. The electoral subject may not change the ranking of the candidates in the list after its registration. Candidates shall be re-ranked only as required by the procedures of this law for the calculation of winning seats based on the preferential voting and on the legal requirement on the gender quota.

6. For each electoral zone, in the elections for the Assembly, not less than one in every three names on the multi-name list must belong to the underrepresented gender, whereas for elections for municipal councils, one in every two consecutive names on the list must belong to the same gender.

7. In the event of failure to fulfil any of the conditions provided for in this Article, in relation to the composition of the multi-name list, the CEC shall impose the sanctions stipulated in Article 175 of this Code.