Special conditions for the nomination of candidates by political parties and electoral blocs of parties

(1) The citizen of the Republic of Moldova may apply as an independent candidate to be elected in the local council if he/she is being supported by 2% of the number of voters from that district, divided by the number of councillor seats available to be filled through elections, but not less than 50 persons and for Mayor if he/she is being support­ed by 1% voters from the district, but not less than 100 voters.

(2) The procedure for collecting signatures to support the independent candidate, the submission and verification of the signatures collecting lists, shall be performed un­der Articles 65-67 and under the Regulation approved by the Central Electoral Commis­sion, to be applied accordingly.

(3) If during the verification it is established the lack of the required number of sig­natures or, after the invalidation of the signatures collecting lists and/or the signatures from these lists, their number was reduced below the minimum ceiling laid down in para­graph (1), the candidate shall not be registered and the grounded decision on the refusal to register the independent candidate shall be communicated to him/her within 24 hours of its adoption.

(4) It is prohibited to submit additional signatures collecting lists after the District Electoral Council has received and registered all the documents provided for in Article 68.