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Article 92
 

92.-(1) A substitute shall enter the Folketing as a Member when a Member of the Folketing ceases to be a Member, 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 multi-member constituency, the seat shall be carried over to the multi-member constituency in the region of the nearest entitlement to the seat, cf. section 85(1).

(3) If there is no substitute for the party in the region, the seat shall be carried over to the multi- member constituency in the other two regions taken together where the party has the largest quotient which did not give a compensatory seat according to computations in sections 79 and 84(2). The seat shall be carried over to the region in which this multi-member constituency is situated.

(4) If, by the rules of subsections (1) to (3), there is no substitute, the Folketing shall decide whether to hold a by-election, cf. section 93.