Supervening vacancies in the Assembly

1 - Vacancies that arise in the Assembly of the Republic shall be filled by the next citizen on the respective list or, in the case of a coalition, by the next citizen from the party that put forward the candidate who gave rise to the vacancy.
2 - When application of the rule contained in the final part of the previous paragraph makes it impossible to fill the vacancy with a citizen who had been put forward by the same party, the seat shall be awarded to the next candidate on the list submitted by the coalition.
3 - In cases in which there are no longer any unelected effective or alternate candidates from the list to which the holder of the vacant seat belonged, the vacancy shall not be filled.
4 - Members of the Assembly of the Republic who are appointed to be members of the Government may not exercise their mandate until their governmental functions end, and they shall be substituted in accordance with paragraph (1).