Certificate of voting rights
Source: BUS Rheinland-PfalzIn order to participate as a candidate in an election, a certain level of support is required from the population. Therefore, all electoral laws stipulate that nominations by parties, voters' associations, voter groups and individual candidates who are not represented by a minimum number of deputies in parliament or the body to be elected must submit a certain number of supporting signatures from citizens entitled to vote in order to be admitted to the election. In the case of a constituency proposal for the Landtag election, this is 125 signatures, for a Land list 2080 signatures. In municipal elections, the number of signatures of support depends on the number of inhabitants of the local authority concerned.