§ Article 87Counting of the Election Rating of Candidates and Establishment of the Final Order of Succession of the Lists of Candidates

1. The Central Electoral Committee shall calculate the election rating of candidates and shall establish a final order of succession of the candidate in the lists in accordance with the opinion expressed by voters and preference votes cast.
2. At first preference votes cast for each candidate shall be summed up. In the event when the sum total of the candidate’s preference votes is bigger than the number of members of the European Parliament who are being elected or such sum is equal to the said number, election rating of the candidate shall be equal to that sum, if it is smaller - election rating of the candidate shall be considered to be equal to zero.
3. The final order of candidates the lists shall be established according the points of the rating received by each candidate. The first written down in the succession shall be the candidate who have received more points of the election rating. In the event that several candidates receive the equal amount of the election rating points, then the first written down shall be the candidate whose election number is smaller.
4. The Central Electoral Committee shall announce the final succession of candidates on the list.