(1) Land lists may only be submitted by political parties. They must bear the personal and handwritten signatures of the members of the executive committee of the Land branch or, where Land branches do not exist, those of the members of the executive committees of the next lower regional branches (Article 7 (2) of the Law on Political Parties) that lie within the territory of the Land and, in the case of the parties specified in Article 18 (2), the personal and handwritten signatures of one per thousand of the persons eligible to vote in the Land at the last Bundestag election, but of not more than 2,000 persons eligible to vote. The signatories of a constituency nomination of one of the parties specified in Article 18 (2) 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 present additional signatures shall not apply to Land lists of parties representing national minorities.
(2) Land lists must contain the name of the party submitting them as well as any shortened form of its name it uses.
(3) The names of the candidates must be listed in a recognizable order.
(4) A candidate may only be nominated in one Land and there only in one Land list. A per-son may only be nominated in a Land list if he or she has given his or her written consent; such consent shall be irrevocable.
(5) Article 21 (1), (3), (5) and (6) as well as Articles 22 to 25 shall apply as appropriate, provided that the assurance in lieu of an oath to be given under Article 21 (6), sentence 2 also covers an assurance to the effect that the order of names of the candidates in the Land list has been laid down by secret ballot.
