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5/1998. resolution number

5/1998. (IV. 1.) OVB resolution - on the joint nomination

The National Election Committee, acting within its competence as laid down in Section 34 (2) a) of Act C of 1997 on Electoral Procedure (hereinafter: Ve.), issued the following resolution on joint nominations:

According to Section 5 (1) of Act XXXIV of 1989 on the election of parliamentary representatives (hereinafter: Vjt.), two or more parties may jointly recommend and nominate a candidate for an individual parliamentary constituency. Section 5 (5) of the same Act states that parties may, on the basis of a joint individual constituency nomination - with the participation of the same parties - nominate a joint regional list, and on the basis of joint regional lists - with the participation of the same parties - a joint national list. According to Section 49 (1) of the Ve., a joint candidate can only be nominated on the basis of recommendation forms on which the names of all the nominating organizations nominating the given joint candidate are indicated. According to paragraph (2), if several nominating organizations jointly nominate a candidate, they are considered one nominating organization for the purposes of the election.

When announcing joint candidates and joint regional and national lists nominated on the basis of Section 5 (1) and (5) of the Vjt., the nominating organizations jointly nominating the candidate or list may freely determine the order in which the individual nominating organizations appear in the register of the election committees. If a candidate is eliminated from the party's list, the next candidate on the list shall take their place [Section 5 (8) of the Vjt.]. The candidates appear on the ballot paper in the order in which they are registered. The nominating organizations that jointly nominate a candidate or a list may be listed in a different order on the recommendation forms and in the various individual and regional constituencies, and this difference does not affect the possibility of nominating a joint regional and then a joint national list. After the announcement of the joint candidate or list, the nominating organizations may not change the order they have specified.