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Article 163
 

1. Immediately after the completion of the calculation of the result in accordance with article 162 of this Code, the CEC calculates the allocation of seats within a coalition for each electoral zone, based on the number of valid votes won by each member party of the coalition in the respective electoral zone and on the number of seats won by the coalition in the respective electoral zone.


2. The number of valid votes for each party is divided continuously by odd natural numbers, called denominators, starting with number 1 and by ending with the natural number that corresponds to the double of the number of seats allocated to the respective electoral zone. If the quotient obtained through the division is a number with a decimal remainder, the closest whole number shall be considered the quotient.


3. The quotients obtained through each division are placed on a list ranked from the largest quotient to the smallest one, listing alongside them the subject to which the respective quotient belongs. If the quotient is a number with a decimal remainder, the nearest whole number shall be considered as the quotient. The ranking continues until as many quotients as the number of seats to be allocated within the coalition in the respective electoral zone are ranked.


4. A political party shall be allocated a number of seats equal to the number of quotients included in the list defined in point 3 of this article. If there are two or more subjects with the same quotient for the allocation of the last seat in the list defined in point 3 of this article, the seat is allocated to the subject that has obtained the largest number of votes and, if they have obtained the same number of votes, then it shall be decided by lot among those parties. The lot is drawn publicly at the CEC in the presence of the interested subjects.


5. Immediately after the completion of the procedures for the allocation of seats to each political party in accordance with this article, the CEC determines the nominal seats for each political party based on the ranking of the candidates in the list deposited in accordance with point 4 of article 67 of this Code, in a descending order, starting from the ordinal number one.


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