§ Electoral Code art. 124Allocation of mandates as a Member of Parliament

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Allocation of mandates as a Member of Parliament
(1) Mandates as a Member of Parliament shall be assigned by the Central Electoral
Commission to their electoral competitors in the order in which they are included in the lists.
(2) Candidates included in the lists of electoral competitors who have passed the
representation ceiling laid down in Article 122 but have not been elected shall be declared
alternates. The alternate candidate shall be declared elected by the Constitutional Court upon
referral to the Central Electoral Commission if, for certain reasons, a mandate as a Member
of Parliament pertaining to the political party or electoral block he/she represents becomes
vacant. The alternate candidate may refuse the mandate of a Member by submitting a written
statement to the Central Electoral Commission.
(3) If a political party or electoral bloc obtains a number of mandates as a Member
higher than the number of candidates included in the list, that political party or electoral block
shall be distributed a number of mandates equal to the number of candidates on the list.
(4) The remaining mandates of Member shall be redistributed to the other political
parties or electoral blocks as laid down in Article 123 (1). The same shall apply for the
subsequent vacancy for the mandate of Member, if the electoral competitor has no alternate
candidates or if the mandate as a Member obtained by an independent candidate becomes
vacant.

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