We urge all citizens to express their support for this legislation to their parliamentarians. Rule 108 prohibits illegal occupants from running for or holding office. They have been declared ineligible to stand as candidates for the forthcoming general elections due to their failure to vacate the property they illegally occupied within the deadline stipulated in an administrative decision. Though their names cannot be removed from the ballots at this date, announcements of their ineligibility to run will be placed in polling stations, as was the practice in previous elections. The appointed municipal office she held will remain vacant until the SDP proposes a new, qualified person.
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The OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina is pleased to announce the publication of the financial disclosure forms for parties participating in the November 2000 general elections. These are the first elections in which political parties have been required to file financial disclosure forms. Disclosure of political party finances is another reform from the draft Election Law that was incorporated into the PEC Rules and Regulations for the general elections. The regulations are intended to make political party financing completely transparent, giving the media and the public an important tool for evaluating and comparing political parties. Transparency will also allow the PEC to monitor compliance with the regulation banning contributions from public enterprises and the regulation that establishes a campaign spending limit.