Assigning the Members of Parliament seats

(1) The Central Electoral Commission shall assign the seats to electoral competitors according to the order in which they have been recorded in the lists.

(2) Candidates included in the lists of electoral competitors that surpassed the representation threshold referred to in Article 122, but have not been elected shall be declared as alternates. An alternate candidate shall be declared as elected by the Con­stitutional Court, upon the request of the Central Electoral Commission, if, for whatever reasons, a seat belonging to a political party or to an electoral bloc of parties becomes vacant. The alternate candidate may refuse the offered seat, by submitting a written ap­plication with the Central Electoral Commission.

(3) If a political party or an electoral bloc of parties obtains a number of seats that exceeds the number of candidates included in the list, the concerned political party or the electoral bloc of parties shall receive a number of seats that is equal to the number of candidates included in the list.

(4) The remaining seats shall be reassigned to other political parties or electoral blocs of parties in the manner laid down in Article 123 (1). The same procedure shall apply to subsequent vacancies for the position of Member of Parliament, if the electoral com­petitor does not have alternate candidates or if became vacant the MP mandate obtained by an independent candidate.