Assignment of seats in European Parliament

1. The Central Electoral Commission shall proceed not later than the twentieth day after the election, to the counting of votes on a national level, to the assignment of seats to each list of candidates and to the proclamation of elected candidates.

2. Within five days from such proclamation the elected candidates must swear or affirm allegiance to the Constitution before the Central Electoral Commission. On expiry of said term the Central Electoral Commission is to declare the vacancy of seats assigned to members of the European Parliament having failed to swear or affirm their allegiance to the Constitution, as well as the suspension of any prerogatives to which they may be entitled on account of their mandate, as
long as they do not make the aforesaid oath or affirmation. 

3. The Central Electoral Commission shall likewise be the competent authority for the conduct of all other general counting operations not contemplated in the preceding section. 

 SECT. 224 ADDED BY SECT. 2 OF INSTITUTIONAL ACT 1/1987, OF APRIL 2