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Article 6
 

6.-(1) Members of the Folketing are elected for four years. The existing seats in the Folketing shall lapse, however, when a new election has taken place, cf. section 32 of the Act of the Constitution.

(2) General elections are called by royal public notice, to be held on the same day throughout the realm. In the Faroe Islands and in Greenland, fixing another day for holding the election can be entrusted to the High Commissioners.