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Article 47
 

(1) Repealed.


(2) After the receipt of the minutes drawn up by the electoral bureaux of the constituencies, according to article 46, the Central Electoral Bureau shall set the political parties, political alliances, electoral alliances and organisations of citizens belonging to national minorities that meet the electoral threshold, separately for the Chamber of Deputies and for the Senate. The electoral threshold refers to the minimum needed number of validly cast votes for the parliamentary representation or of uninominal colleges in which the candidates of the political parties, political alliances, electoral alliances or organisations of citizens belonging to national minorities have obtained the biggest number of validly cast votes, calculated as follows:


a) for the Chamber of Deputies, 5% of the total of validly cast votes in all constituencies, for all political parties, political alliances, electoral alliances and organisations of citizens belonging to national minorities;


b) for the Senate, 5% of the total number of the validly cast votes in all constituencies, for all political parties, political alliances, electoral alliances and organisations of citizens belonging to national minorities;


c) for the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate, by the cumulative fulfilment of the condition to obtain 6 uninominal colleges for the Chamber of Deputies and 3 uninominal colleges for the Senate, in which the candidates of the political parties, political alliances, electoral alliances and organisations of citizens belonging to national minorities are situated on the first place, in the order of the number of validly cast votes, even if they have not met the terms stipulated at letters a) or b);


d) in the case of the political alliances and electoral alliances, to the threshold of 5% stipulated at letters a) and b) they shall add, for the second member of the alliance, 3% of the validly cast votes in all the constituencies and, for each member of the alliance, beginning with the third one, one percentage of the validly cast votes in all the constituencies, without exceeding 10% of these votes.


(3) For the organisations of citizens belonging to national minorities having met the terms stipulated in paragraph (2) and that are entitled, under the law, to a representation in the Chamber of Deputies, they shall set an electoral coefficient at national level representing the average number of validly cast votes needed for the election of a Deputy, to determine those organisations of citizens belonging to national minorities that may have representatives in the Chamber of Deputies.


(4) The electoral coefficient at national level shall be set by dividing the total number of validly cast votes for the election to the Chamber of Deputies in all constituencies, obtained by the political parties, organisations of citizens belonging to national minorities, political alliances, electoral alliances, by the total number of uninominal colleges set up for the election to the Chamber of Deputies. The organisation of citizens belonging to the national minority having obtained at least 10% of the electoral coefficient shall be entitled to representation. They shall declare as elected the representative of the organisation of citizens belonging to the national minority having obtained the largest number of votes.


(5) The result of the operations stipulated in paragraphs (2)–(4), calculated as complete part, not round, shall be delivered by the Central Electoral Bureau, based on a minute, to each of the electoral bureaux of constituency.