Candidates for deputies may be proposed by political parties or voters. A political party nominates candidates in accordance with its own internal rules. A party may, under certain conditions, put up a list in every constituency. The law also permits the formation of pre-electoral coalitions, so that two or more parties present a common list of candidates. Such a list, however, must have a single name.
Voters form a list of candidates by the collection of signatures.
In an individual constituency, a voters' list is accepted if it is supported by at least one hundred voters with domicile in the constituency. Such a list can consist of a number of independent candidates or of one only, in which case he stands in all eleven constituencies. The law decrees that an individual person is allowed to be candidate at individual elections only once, he must give written consent, and it is not possible to withdraw a candidature. Electors have only one vote. The calculation is based on D'Hondt's system, except that the remnants of the votes are taken into account, a threshold is also set for the second round, and only lists the which have already obtained at least three direct mandates can take part in this distribution of mandates.