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Article 76
 

1. As a rule, 4 months before the starting date of the electoral period, which precedes the end of the Assembly’s mandate, the General Directorate of Civil Status, on the request of the CEC, sends the total number of citizens, as well as the number of citizens for each region, based on the National Civil Status Register.


2. No later than 15 days from receiving the data, the CEC makes the calculations for the allocation of seats for each electoral zone, according to the criteria and procedures provided for in article 75 of this Code and sends them immediately to the Assembly. The Assembly, through an accelerated procedure, approves by decision the allocation of seats.


3. In any case, the number of seats for each electoral zone is approved no later than 6 months before the end of the Assembly's mandate. The number of seats for each electoral zone shall not be revised in case of early elections.