• 1. Written statements of support must be submitted with the list for each electoral district for which the list is submitted, listing the candidates in the same manner and order as on the list. The minimum number of statements to be submitted is:

o a. for electoral district 20 (Bonaire): ten.

o b. for the electoral district for the election of the members of a municipal council in which the number of seats to be allocated is less than nineteen: ten.

o c. for the electoral district for the election of the members of a municipal council in which the number of seats to be allocated is less than thirty-nine, but at least nineteen: twenty.

o d. for every other electoral district: thirty.

• 2. Statements of support for a electoral district may only be made by persons registered as voters within that electoral district for the relevant election.

• 3. A voter who wishes to submit a declaration of support must sign this declaration within fourteen days prior to or on the day of nomination at the town hall of the municipality where they are registered as a voter, in the presence of the mayor or an official designated by the mayor. The voter must provide the mayor or official with a document as referred to in Article 1 of the Identification Act.

• 4. The mayor or the official designated by the mayor must immediately verify whether the signatory is registered as a voter in their municipality. If they determine this is the case, they must note this on the declaration.

• 5. A voter may not sign more than one declaration of support.

• 6. A submitted declaration of support cannot be withdrawn.

• 7. ​​A general administrative order shall regulate where and when the forms for the declarations of support are available to voters free of charge. A model for the form shall be established by ministerial regulation.

• 8. The obligation referred to in the first paragraph does not apply to a candidate list of a political grouping if its designation was placed above a candidate list to which one or more seats were allocated in the last election of the members of the representative body in question. The previous sentence also applies to:

o a. the combination of designations of two or more groupings, if one or more seats were allocated in the last election of the members of the body in question, either to the joint groupings or to at least one of them;

o b. a new designation if two or more groupings participate in the elections together as a single grouping under a new name and one or more seats were allocated to each of the separate groupings in the last election of the members of the body in question;

o c. a new designation if two or more groupings participate in the elections together as a single grouping under a new name and participated in the last election of the members of the body in question under a combined designation with a joint list and one or more seats were allocated to them.