P.R. Laws tit. 16, § 1332
Every group of candidates for delegate or alternate delegate that wish to appear on the ballot as a group must file its candidacy before the presidents of the affiliated political parties, with a copy to the Chairman of the Commonwealth Election Commission, stating their names, addresses, electoral precinct and senatorial district in which he resides, the name of the presidential candidate to whom he wishes to be committed or, in the case of an uncommitted group, the name of the candidate to delegate under whose name the group wishes to appear, in addition to any other information that by law or regulation is required, no later than thirty (30) days prior to the holding of the presidential primary.
Every person who wishes to appear as an individual candidate for delegate or alternate delegate and not as group must file a petition before the presidents of his affiliated political party no later than thirty (30) days prior to the holding of the presidential primary as candidate for alternate delegate in which he shall state his name, address, electoral precinct and senatorial district in which he resides in addition to any other information that by law or regulation is required. When the rules and regulations of the National Party require it, he shall also consign his condition of commitment to an aspirant to the presidential candidacy, or his noncommitment.
The Chairman of the Commonwealth Election Commission shall remit to the corresponding presidential candidate, by certified mail and acknowledgement of receipt, the names and addresses of the groups and individuals who wish to aspire committed to such presidential candidate within the two (2) days following the last date for filing candidacies for delegate or alternate delegate. The presidential candidate to whom this information has been remitted must notify the list of candidates he approves of, by certified mail and acknowledgement of receipt, to the Chairman of the Commonwealth Election Commission no later than two (2) days after receiving it. The presidential candidate shall approve a list of no more than the number of alternate delegates that should be selected in each respective senatorial district. If no reply or refusal of a specific person is received from the presidential candidate, it shall be understood that the candidate approves the list submitted.
History —Sept. 24, 1979, No. 6, p. 997, § 12; Mar. 15, 1984, No. 2, p. 5, § 4; July 2, 1987, No. 89, p. 347, § 3.