text: **32. Election of President after dissolution of Parliament**
  
  (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 delivered 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 manner as 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- 
  
  (a) 
  
  a person nominated as a Parliamentary candidate may, 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; 
  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; 