The National Electoral Commission has drawn the list numbers for electoral committees that had submitted the lists of candidates in more than one constituency for the upcoming elections to the European Parliament in May.
The following committees have registered in all the 13 constituencies: European Coalition (Civic Platform, Polish People's Party and Democratic Left Alliance, Modern Party, Greens); Law and Justice; Kukiz '15; Robert Biedroń's Wiosna (Spring) Party; United Left - Razem Party, Labour Union, Movement for Social Justice; Confederation Korwin Braun Liroy Nationalists.
List numbers for the European election
List number 1 - Confederation Korwin Braun Liroy Nationalists
List number 2 - Robert Biedroń's Wiosna (Spring) Party
List number 3 - European Coalition (Civic Platform, Polish People's Party and Democratic Left Alliance, Modern Party, Greens)
List number 4 - Law and Justice
List number 5 - United Left - Razem Party, Labour Union, Movement for Social Justice
List number 6 - Kukiz '15
The following are the committees that have not registered lists in all of the constituencies:
List number 7 - Fair Play Poland Non-Partisans Gwiazdowski
List number 8 - True Europe Movement - Europa Christi
List number 9 - Polexit-Coalition
The voting card
The head of the National Electoral Office (KBW) Magdalena Pietrzak informed on Thursday that the voting card in the European elections will take the form of a single sheet of paper, not a whole booklet. Consequently, each voter will be able to see the lists of candidates from all the committees on one page.
According to the KBW chief, this solution will facilitate voters to mark the selected candidate. "The single-page voting cards proved to be fine solution during the autumn's elections to the local governments, when we have seen the lowest percentage of invalid votes since the 1989 elections," Pietrzak underscored.
One list per constituency
Each committee was allowed to register only one list of candidates for each constituency. There had to be at least five names on each list, but no more than 10. Furthermore, quotas have been introduced - each list must contain at least 35 percent of both female and male candidates. A single candidate could have only been registered in a single constituency and only on one list.
Each list must have been submitted together with at least 10,000 signatures, unless the committee received an approval from the PKW to submit a list without signatures. Such approval could have been granted only to the committees that registered their lists in at least half of constituencies, 7 in case of the European elections.
Each committee is entitled to free commercial spots in public radio and TV stations, as long as they've registered lists in at least half of constituencies.
The elections to the European Parliament in Poland have been scheduled for the 26th of May.
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