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Article 92
 

(1) A substitute shall enter the Folketing as a Member when a Member of the Folketing ceases to be a Mem ber, and in all other respects according to the rules thereon laid down in the standing orders of the Folketing.


(2) If a party does not have substitutes to fill a vacant seat in a multimember constituency, the seat shall be transferred to the multimember constitu ency in the region nearest entitled to the seat, cf. section 85(1).


(3) If there is no substitute for the party in the region, the seat shall be transferred to the multimember constituency in the other two regions taken together where the party has the largest quotient which did not give a compensatory seat according to computa tions in sections 79 and 84(2). The seat shall be transferred to the region in which this multimem ber constituency is situated.


(4) If there is no substitute under the rules of subsections (1) to (3), the Folketing shall decide whether to call a by-election.