The candidatures should be sent to the Technical Secretariat of the Premi Ramon Margalef. It was ruled that their candidatures stood. He mentioned Sapporo of Japan is the furthest advanced of the three possible candidatures. Hamas had announced that it would field candidatures of non-partisan professionals. He withdrew on 10 June, the day that candidatures were to be formalised. The candidatures were defined in September 1973, on party conventions. A growing phenomena are various "non-partisan" groups putting up candidatures. The election was also marked by candidatures of MAS-IPSP dissidents.