Merger of candidate lists

1. Before the deadline for submission of application documents, political parties/committees may form a coalition of political parties/committees by pooling the lists of candidates of a coalition of political parties or a coalition of political committees, respectively, into a joint list where the candidates are drawn up under the order of precedence established by the political parties or political committees constituting the coalition.

2. Political parties that form a coalition of political parties, political committees that form a coalition of political committees, or political parties/committees that form a joint list of candidates must submit to the Central Electoral Commission an application for merger of the lists
of candidates, indicate the name of the coalition, and submit a document confirming the payment of the deposit for the merger of the lists of candidates.

3. The name of the coalition of political parties/political committees shall contain the word ‘coalition’ and full names of all the political parties or political committees involved in the coalition. The name of the coalition may not contain names of political parties or political committees outside the respective coalition of political parties/political committees and may not contain personal names and surnames.
4. A political party/political committee may draw up only one joint list of candidates per constituency in the course of the same elections.
5. The joint list of candidates shall be subject to membership size requirements and other requirements laid down in this Code in respect of the list of candidates.

6. Until the expiry of the deadline for submission of application documents, a joint list of candidates shall be considered equal to a list of candidates of a political organisation, provided the joint list contains two or more candidates who belong to (an)other political organisation(s).