Allocation of adjustment seats.

• Only political organisations that have received at least five per cent of the valid votes cast in the country as a whole shall qualify for consideration when allocating adjustment seats.


• To establish how many adjustment seats fall to a political organisation meeting the conditions of paragraph 1 and which of their candidate lists are to be allocated adjustment seats, the total number of votes they have received in the entire country and the constituency seats they have received under Article 109 shall first be counted. The following procedure shall then be applied for these organisations:

1. The number of votes cast for the organisation shall be divided by the number of its constituency seats, augmented first by 1, then by 2, then by 3, etc. The quotients so produced are designated as the organisations’ ‘national indices’.

2. A list shall be drawn up of the two seats of each candidate list that came closest to receiving allocations in a constituency under Article 109. Against each of these seats, the proportion that the quotient for the seat under point 1 of Article 109 constituted of all valid votes cast in the constituency shall be recorded.

3. The highest national index not already eliminated under point 1 shall be found. For those political organisations that then have national indices, the highest quotient for a list under point 2 shall be found, and an adjustment seat shall be allocated to that list. The national index and the quotient shall then both be eliminated.

4. If two or more national indices or quotients being considered under point 3 are equal, lots shall be drawn to determine their order.

5. When adjustment seats have been allocated in each constituency according to paragraph 2 of Article 8, the quotients of all the lists in that constituency shall be eliminated.

6. If all the quotients of a political organisation have been eliminated, then all its national indices shall also be eliminated.

7. The provisions of point 3 shall be applied as often as necessary until all the adjustment seats under paragraph 2 of Article 9 have been allocated.