This year's elections resurrected an electoral practice that became infamous in 2009: so-called "placeholder candidacies." This term refers to a slate of candidates who, leveraging their name recognition, popularity, public office, and political clout, join the lists of candidates proposed by political parties with the sole aim of garnering votes, knowing full well they will not assume their positions. Placeholder candidacies have been observed to be a detrimental electoral practice for the institutional system and ethically reprehensible, yet they are not illegal. Is this legally accurate?

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