(1) The election commission shall, within one day, verify a list of candidates and take one of the following decisions:

1) to accept a list of candidates and documents appended thereto;

2) to refuse a list of candidates and documents appended thereto if it determines the non-conformity of the list of candidates and documents appended thereto with the requirements of Chapter 4 of this Law.

(2) The election commission shall specify in a decision of refusal what deficiencies are to be eliminated in the list of candidates and documents appended thereto in order to decide on the acceptance of such a list and the documents appended thereto.

(3) A list of candidates which has not been accepted by the election commission may be submitted repeatedly if the time period for submitting the lists of candidates specified in the law has not expired. The day when the election commission has accepted a list of candidates shall be considered as the day of submission of the list of candidates.

(4) The election commission shall verify whether the nominated candidates conform to the requirements of Section 8, Paragraphs one and two and Section 9 of this Law.

[26 April 2007]