(1) For the political parties, the organisations of citizens belonging to national minorities, political alliances and electoral alliances, the electoral threshold for the allotment of mandates represents the whole number of a quota of 5% of the total of ballots validly cast at national level, including those received by independent candidates.

(2) The independent candidates shall be allotted mandates if each of them have acquired, separately, a number of ballots validly cast at least equal to the Community electoral quotient. The national electoral quotient represents the whole number of the ratio between the total number of ballots validly cast at national level and the number of mandates for members in the European Parliament distributed to Romania.

(3) The total number of ballots validly cast at national level shall mean the number of validly cast votes received from the political parties, organisations of citizens belonging to national minorities, political alliances, electoral alliances and independent candidates. *

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*Amended by G.E.O. no. 1/2007.