§ Article 86The Establishment of Election Results

1. A list candidates of the party or a joint list of candidates may receive mandates of members of the European Parliament (takes part in the distribution of mandates) only if not less than 5 percent of the voters participating in the elections voted for it. If less than 60 percent of all voters who participated in the election have voted for the lists of candidates, the list of candidates (lists of candidates if an equal amount of votes has been cast for them) which has not taken part in the distribution of mandates up till then, for whom the majority of voters have voted shall acquire the right to take part in the distribution of mandates. The number of lists of candidates which have the right to participate in the distribution of mandates shall be further increased in the same manner until not less than 60 percent of all the voters who participated in the election shall have voted for the lists of candidates participating in the distribution of mandates.
2. Mandates for lists of candidates shall be distributed according to the number of votes received by each of them, applying the method of quotas and remainders.
3. At first, the quota shall be counted, that is, how many votes are needed to receive 1 mandate. It shall be equal to the sum of votes, divided by the number of members of the European Parliament which are being elected, cast by voters for the lists participating in the distribution of mandates. If when dividing, a remainder is received, 1 shall be added to the quotient.
4. A list of candidates shall receive mandates if the number of votes cast for it is not less than the quota. The amount of votes cast for each list of candidates shall be divided by the quota. The received integer quotient shall be the number of mandates for each list according to the quota and the remainders of this division shall be used to distribute the remaining mandates in accordance with the remainders for those lists which have received mandates according to the quota. Therefore, all names of the lists which have received mandates (mandate) according to the quota, shall be written down in succession in which the first follows the last, according to the size of the remainders of the dividing received by the lists, beginning with the largest. If the remainders of two lists are equal, the first written down shall be the list which have received more votes of voters and if these numbers are also equal, the first written down shall be the list which possesses the smaller election number. The mandates which have not been distributed when distributing by the method of quotas shall be distributed by one to the lists according to the succession, beginning with the list which was written down first.
5. If one of the lists received the larger number of mandates than there were candidates on the list, these mandates would be distributed to other lists, further continuing the dividing thereof by the method of remainders.
6. Candidates of the same list shall receive mandates in the order which is established according to the preference votes cast by voters, after the Central Electoral Committee has counted the election rating of candidates.
7. If the party, coalition submits together with the application documents the request that their rating should not be established, voters shall be notified about this in advance, indicating this in a ballot paper and the rating of candidates shall not be counted, and the registered sequence of candidates on the list shall be considered final.