§ 1. After the verification of the powers in the Parliament of the community or region that appoints the senators, the clerk of the Senate communicates the protocol mention end in article 210undecies to the chairman of the Walloon Parliament, the chairman of the Parliament of the French Community and the chairman of the Parliament of the Region of Capital Brussels.

§ 2. The elected members on the lists belonging to the same political alliance and sitting in the Parliament of the concerned community or region send no later than five days after the verification of the powers, a list containing as many members of their political alliance as there are senators’ seats in the federal entities appointed to the alliance for the concerned Parliament, to the chairman of the concerned Parliament. The appointed members are members of Parliaments and those have the right to appoint senators compliant to article 67, § 1, 2° tot 4º, and artikel 67, § 2, of the Constitution.

The total number of names figuring on the lists of the political alliances for a parliament sent to the president of the Parliament of the Walloon Region, then Parliament of the French Community and to the chairman of the Parliament of the region of Capital Brussels or to the first vice chairman if the chairman does not belong to the francophone group, shall not be higher than the number of senators’ seat in the federal entities appointed to the concerned alliances,

The total number of names figuring on the lists of the political alliances for a concerned Parliament shall not exceed the number of seats appointed to that Parliament, accordingly to article 67 of the Constitution.

The lists are only valid if they are signed by the majority of the members of the communal or regional Parliament who have been elected on lists belonging to the same political alliance.

Before the list is sent according to sentence 1, the political alliances confer if necessary, to ensure the respect of the previous sentences and the article 67, § 1, 2° to 4º, § 2 and § 3, of the Constitution.