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Article 115
 

§ 1. In deviation from article 115bis, when the elections to the Chamber of Representatives take place on the date specified in article 10, §3, the numbering of the candidates’ lists for the election to the Chamber of Representatives is organized according to the following dispositions.


§ 2. The candidates for the Chamber of Representatives may request in their declaration of candidacy the attribution of the same protected acronym or logo to their list and of the same numeral order as those granted in a drawing by lot through the Interior Minister on the 65th day before the elections to the European Parliament to establish a list for this election. They must produce a certificate from the person or his deputy appointed by the political alliance for this purpose, in whose name the list for the election to the European Parliament has been handed in, giving them the right to use the protected acronym or logo and the corresponding numeral order granted for this election.


If the acronym or protected logo, is to be used compliant with the previous sentence and includes the complementary element mentioned in article 12, §2, sentence 3 of the law from 23 March 1989 on the election to the European Parliament, the list for the Chamber having the right to use the acronym or logo may use it without the annexation of the mentioned element.


The candidates for the Chamber of Representatives may ask in their declaration of acceptance of their candidature for the same numeral order as those granted in a drawing by lot through the chairman of the French, Dutch or German central electoral committee, depending on the case, on the 52th day before the elections to the European Parliament, to a list presented for this election, if they can produce a certificate from the person or his deputy in whose name the list for the election to the European Parliament has been handed in, giving them the right to use the numeral order granted for this election.


For the remaining, the numbering of the candidates’ list delivered for the elections to the Chamber of Representatives, conformity shall be assorted with the provisions of article 128ter.