Content and Form of Constituency Nominations
(1) A constituency nomination may only contain the name of one candidate. Each candidate may only be named in one constituency, and only in one nomination for that constituency. A person may only be nominated as a candidate if he or she has given his or her written consent to the nomination; such consent is irrevocable.
(2) Constituency nominations of parties must bear the personal handwritten signatures of the members of the executive committee of the Land branch of the party or, where such Land branches do not exist, the personal handwritten signatures of the members of the executive committee of the next lower regional branches in whose area the constituency lies. They may only be admitted if a Land list of the party is admitted in the respective Land. Constituency nominations of the parties specified in section 18 subsection (2) must in addition bear the personal handwritten signatures of at least 200 persons eligible to vote in the constituency; they must be eligible to vote at the time they sign the nomination and proof of this must be furnished when the nomination is submitted. The requirement to provide 200 signatures does not apply to constituency nominations of parties representing national minorities.
(3) Non-party constituency nominations must bear the personal handwritten signatures of at least 200 persons eligible to vote from the constituency concerned. Subsection (2), third sentence, second half-sentence, applies accordingly.
(4) Constituency nominations of parties must contain the name of the submitting party and any shortened form of the party name that the party may use, non-party constituency nominations must contain an identifying name.