(1) If several provincial election proposals bear the same or hardly distinctive party names or abbreviations respectively, the provincial polling officer shall summon the representatives of these election proposals to a joint meeting and attempt to reach mutual consent on the distinction of the party name and abbreviation respectively. If no mutual consent can be reached, the provincial electoral authority shall keep party names, which have already been contained in election proposals made public in National Council elections within the last ten years, and name the other provincial election proposals according to the person campaigning proposed in the first position. The same applies to abbreviations subject to the proviso that the provincial electoral authority shall delete the abbreviations on the other provincial election proposals.
(2) Correspondingly, provincial election proposals without an explicit party name shall be named after the person campaigning proposed in the first place.
(3) If a provincial election proposal is to be named after the person campaigning proposed in the first position (name list), but the name of the leader of the list resembles the name of the leader of another provincial party list, or is hardly distinctive from it, the provincial polling officer shall summon the representative of this election proposal to a meeting and request him to name another leader of the list, whose name does not give rise to confusion. If in such case no other leader of the list is named, the provincial election proposal is deemed as not submitted.
(4) Anyhow it is a principle that in case new parties join the campaign preference is given to the party name of that campaigning party that submitted its provincial electoral proposal earlier.
