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Article 87
 

Counting of mandates obtained by the electoral competitor



The number of mandates obtained by the electoral competitors shall be counted by the Central Elections Commission by successive division of the number of validly expressed votes for each electoral competitor, except for independent candidates, to 1, 2, 3, 4…etc. till the figure corresponding to the number of seats in the Parliament.



From the results of all divisions and from the number of validly expressed votes for independent candidates, there shall be taken in decreasing order as many numbers as many mandates are to be attributed. The political party, other social-political organization, electoral bloc shall be attributed as many mandates as many numbers in this decreasing row it has.



The independent candidate shall be considered elected if the number of validly expressed votes obtained by him represents at least 3 percent of all the validly expressed votes per country.



[Paragraph 3, article 87 introduced by the Law no.894-XIV from 23.03.2000]

[Paragraph 3, article 87 excluded by the Law no.268-XIV from 04.02.1999]