nomination of

(a) (1) The nomination of a candidate for the President of candidates the State shall be submitted in writing to the (Amendment No. 8) Speaker of the Knesset, together with the written consent of the candidate, on the fourteenth day before the election day. A Member of the Knesset shall not participate in the nomination of more than one candidate. (2) Whoever is nominated by at least ten Members of the Knesset as a candidate shall be a candidate for the President of the State, unless the number of nominators fell below ten due to the deletion of the name of a Knesset Member as stated in paragraph (3). (3) Should a Member of the Knesset be party to nominating more than one candidate, the name of the Knesset Member shall be deleted from the list of the nominators of all the candidates who he nominated. Should the number of nominators of a candidate fall below ten due to the deletion of a name from the list of nominators, a Member of the Knesset who was not party to any nomination may add his name to the list of nominators of that candidate, no later than eight days before the election day. (b) The Speaker of the Knesset shall inform all the Members of the Knesset in writing, no later than seven days before the day of the election, of every candidate who was nominated, and shall announce the candidates at the opening of the sitting at which the election is to be held.