25. Staff  26. Class-child ratio  ( a )  a person nominated as a Parliamentary candidate ma y, at the time of his or her  nomination and subject to the provisions of paragraph ( b ), declare in such manner as  may be prescribed by or under an Act of Parliament which of the candidates in the  election of President he or she supports, but the nomination  of a Parliamentary  candidate shall be valid notwithstanding that the nomination paper does not contain such  a declaration;  ( b )  such a declaration shall not be made in relation to any Presidential candidate unless that  candidate has signified, in such manner as may be prescribed by or under an Act of  Parliament, his or her consent to the making of a declaration in his or her favour by that  Parliamentary candidate; ( c )  where the Parliamentary election is contested in any constituency a poll shall be taken  in  that constituency at which the votes shall be given by ballot, and for the purposes of that  poll any Parliamentary candidate who declared support in accordance with paragraph ( a )  for a particular Presidential candidate shall use the same voting colour a nd symbol, if  any, as may have been allocated under any law for the time being in force in Botswana to  that Presidential candidate for the purposes of the Presidential election; ( d )  the returning officer shall declare to be elected as President any  candidate for whom  support has been declared in accordance with paragraph ( a ) above by not less than such  number of persons elected as Members of the National Assembly in the Parliamentary  election as corresponds to more than half the total number of seats  for Elected Members  in the Assembly, and if there is no such person the returning officer shall declare that no  candidate has been elected.  ( a )  any candidate in an election of a President dies during the period commencing with the  taking of the poll in the Parliamentary election and ending when the result of the election  has been ascertained and that candidate would, but for his or her death, have been  entitled to have been declared elected as President under subsection (3) of this section;  or  ( b )  the returning officer declares in accordance with the provisions of subsection (3)( d ) of  this section that no candidate has been elected, (4) Parliament may make provision whereby the time for nominating Presidential  candidates may be extended in the e vent of there being no qualified candidate nominated at the  expiration of the time for the delivery of such nominations. (5) Where, at the expiration of the time for the delivery of nominations in the election of a  President, more than one qualified candi date is validly nominated and any of those candidates  dies before the commencement of the poll in the Parliamentary election, the poll in the  Parliamentary election shall be countermanded, fresh nominations of Parliamentary candidates  shall take place in every constituency and a fresh election of a President shall be held in  accordance with the foregoing provisions of this section. (6) Where-  (1) Whenever Parliament is dissolved an election shall be held to the office of President in  such manner as is prescribed by this section and, subject thereto, by or under an Act of  Parliament.  (2) Nominations in the election of a President shall be deliver ed to the returning officer on  such day and at such time as may be prescribed by or under any law for the time being in force in  Botswana; the nomination of a candidate in an election of a President shall not be valid unless it is  supported, in such manneras may be prescribed by or under an Act of Parliament, by not less  than 1000 persons registered as voters for the purpose of elections to the Assembly. (3) The following provisions shall then apply -  Copyright Government of Botswana