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Article 95
 

Counting of votes


1. On conclusion of the voting the count (escrutinio) shall begin immediately.


2. The count shall be conducted in public and shall not be suspended, except by reason of force majeure, even if more than one election are being held at the same time. The presiding officer shall cause a person who has in any way disturbed or obstructed the operations to be immediately expelled from the premises.


3. In the event of more than one election being held concurrently, the count shall proceed in the following order: (1) the European Parliament, (2) the Congress of Deputies (3) the Senate, (4) Local Councils, (5) Legislative Assemblies of Self-Governing Communities and finally the Canary Islands’ Insular Councils (Cabildos Insulares). 


4. The count shall be carried out with the presiding officer extracting the envelopes one by one from the corresponding ballot box and reading out the name of the candidates list or, as the case may be, of the candidates. He shall also read each ballot paper himself and then show it to the other members of the Bureau, to polling controllers and to election proxies. 


5. If a notary in the discharge of his duties, a representative of a candidature or a member of a list has doubts as to the contents of a ballot paper read out by the presiding officer, he may request at once that such ballot paper be shown him for examination and his request shall be granted.


 3. AS AMENDED BY SECT. 1 OF INSTITUTIONAL ACT 1/1987, OF APRIL 2