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Article 106
 

New elections as a result of an appeal If new elections are held due to an appeal, the date of the next election is: in parliamentary elections and European Parliamentary elections, the first Sunday after 50 days from when the decision of the appellate authority entered into force.  in municipal elections, on the Sunday prescribed by the municipal central election committee. The same electoral authorities shall take care of conducting the new election as in the invalid election. If the term of office of the municipal central election committee has expired, however, the new election is carried out by a central election committee replacing the said committee. The new election shall follow the same distribution of voting districts and use the same voting register that is in legal force and the same combined list of candidates as in the invalid election, unless the appellate authority otherwise provides. The Population Register Centre will ensure that those who were entered into the voting register will be sent a new card of information. The advance polling is conducted only in the electoral district or in the municipality that is subject to the provision on the new elections. The provisions on the election proper apply, as appropriate, to the conducting of the new election. The members and councillors who have been elected in the invalid election shall keep their posts until the result of the new election has been confirmed. The result of the new parliamentary election shall be submitted without delay to Parliament and in new municipal elections, to the municipal council of the municipality in question.