原级：candidacy
1. The whole process roughly started in November 2006, when potential candidates formed exploratory committees or announced their candidacies.
2. The two sides resumed the system of mutual dispatch of students in 1984, each maintaining 10 candidacies of scholarship annually for the other side.
3. Both said they were offered candidacies in recent local elections in Bari.
4. Both candidates cast their candidacies as vital to the country's welfare.
5. All three polls were conducted after last Wednesday's deadline for announcing candidacies.