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Article 94
 

Confirmation and publication of the result of parliamentary elections and notification of the result   The electoral district committee confirms the result of the election on the 3rd day after the polling day in its meeting which begins at 6 p.m. on that date.   The electoral district committee shall make public the result of the election with directions for lodging an appeal through a notification in the committee and shall also announce in its notification the deputies for the elected members, and shall draw up, without delay, a written authorisation of mandate for each elected member and dispatch the written authorisation, without delay, to parliament to be handed to the elected members.   The electoral district committee shall immediately inform the Ministry of Justice of the result of the result of the election in a manner specified by the Ministry of Justice and also inform the State Provincial Office and the central election committees of the municipalities in the electoral district and give a notification of the result and the comparative indices and the number of votes of telected members in those newspapers which have the greatest circulation in the said electoral district and which represent those parties who have had candidates in the elections.