§ Article 43The Right to Withdraw or Supplement Electoral Application Documents

1. A party or election coalition may, at any time but no later than 25 days before the elections, declare their application documents fully or partially withdrawn. A party or election coalition shall notify the Central Electoral Committee thereof by a statement and the relevant representatives for elections in the Central Electoral Committee shall also be informed about this. If application documents are withdrawn, the election deposit may be refunded only after the elections, provided it becomes refundable as stipulated in Article 40 of this Law. Upon the annulment of the registration of a whole list of candidates or when a list of candidates is not registered due to deficiencies in application documents, or application papers have not been filed in good time, the electoral deposit shall not be returned.
2. It shall be allowed to additionally submit, before the deadline for the filing of application documents set in paragraph 3 of Article 37 of this Law, new application documents when altering the sequence of candidates on a list of candidates.
3. If the application documents are withdrawn by a party that has formed a coalition, the candidates nominated by it shall be removed from the joint list of candidates, and, if the name of the coalition contains a reference to its name, the name of the coalition shall be changed. In such case it is necessary to notify in writing the representatives for elections of the coalition partners in the Central Electoral Committee. If, upon withdrawal of the electoral application documents, the candidates of only one party remain on the coalition’s joint list of candidates, they will participate in the elections only as the nominees of that party.
4. If, upon withdrawal of application documents or the removal of candidates, there are less than 5 candidates left on the list of candidates (joint list), the registration of all the candidates of this list shall be annulled.