Collection of Signatures in Support of a Candidate

(1) Signatures are collected only in support of an independent candidate or for initiating a referendum. In case of local elections, signatures are collected only in the districts where independent candidates are running for elections.

(2) Only independent candidates and members of a citizen initiative group, who nominate and/or support independent candidates, and persons authorised by independent candidates, as well as members of initiative group for a referendum, have the right to collect signatures.

(3) Lists for collecting signatures in support of an independent candidate, as well as for a referendum, hereina!er called signature collecting lists, shall include the last and first name, year of birth, profession, position, place of work, place of residence and party membership of the candidate, as well as the last and "rst name of the person who collects the signatures. Signature collecting lists shall contain only signatures of voters who live in one locality.

(4) A voter who supports the candidate, as well as a person who supports holding a referendum, shall personally fill in the signature collecting sheet his/her "rst and last names, year of birth, place of residence, series and number of identification document, date of signing the list, and signature. If the supporter of the candidate, due to objective reasons, cannot "ll in the requested personal data, such data shall be filled in by the member of the initiative group or any other person empowered to collect signatures, while the signature from the signature collecting list shall be applied personally by the supporter, and if it is not possible, by his/her legal representative.

(5) Each voter may sign the signature collecting sheet in support for only one candidate during one ballot.

(6) The individual who collects voters’ signatures must sign every sheet of the signature list in the presence of the head of local public administration authority where signatures were collected. Signature collectors shall write at the end of each sheet a statement according to which they have personally collected the signatures and con"rmed the identity of the persons whose names appear on that sheet, and sign the sheet. !e signature collecting list shall be certi"ed on each sheet with the official stamp of the respective local public administration authority.