October election: 29 entities have submitted candidate lists so far

To date, 29 political parties, movements and coalitions have submitted candidate lists for the October parliamentary election ahead of the Tuesday afternoon deadline.

According to the Office for the Supervision of Parties and Movements, that is two fewer than four years ago, when 31 parties and movements fielded candidates, nine of which won mandates in the lower house.

In previous elections, each member of a political coalition had to garner 5 percent of the votes to enter Parliament -- the same threshold as an individual party needed, thus discouraging coalitions from forming.