§ Section 44(untitled)

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(1) The members elected shall be determined
by the Central Election Commission. Lists of candidates which
have received less than five per cent of the total number of
votes cast shall not take part in the distribution of member
seats. The number of valid ballot envelopes shall be deemed to be
the total number of votes given (the total number of voters
participating in the election).
(2) In order to distribute the number of member of European
Parliament seats between the other nominated lists of candidates,
the following procedure shall be applied:
1) the number of valid ballot papers given for each list of
candidates shall be determined;
2) the number of ballot papers given for each list of
candidates shall be then sequentially divided by 1, 3, 5, 7 and
so on until the number of divisions is the same as the number of
candidates nominated in the list of candidates;
3) all the acquired divisions for all lists of candidates
shall be numbered in common descending order;
4) seats of members shall sequentially be received by those
lists of candidates which conform to the largest divisions. If
the division the sequential number of which is equal to the
number of members of parliament to be elected is equal to one or
more following divisions, the member of parliament seat shall be
received by the list of candidates which was registered
first.

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