SECTION 121

(1): A candidate may be: (a) Either put forward by a political party; (b) Or independent, on condition that they are put forward by at least 300 (three hundred) dignitaries hailing from all the Regions, with 30 signatures from each Region. Persons who qualify to append such signatures shall be either Members of Parliament or of Trades Chambers, or Regional Councillors, Municipal Councillors, or First-Class Chiefs. (2) The candidate nominated by a political party not represented at the National Assembly, the Senate, in a Regional Council or in a Municipal Council should also fulfil the conditions laid out under Section 121(1)(b) above applicable to independent candidates. The said dignitaries shall affix to a candidate’s papers their signatures authenticated by the administrative authorities with territorial competence. Each dignitary may affix their signature only once and for a single candidate.