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Article 83
 
1. In the case of the adoption by the Supreme Court of a resolution on the invalidity of elections in a constituency or invalidity of the election of a deputy to the Seym or a senator, the repeat elections or electoral activities shall be carried out exclusively within the territory of the Republic of Poland, pursuant to the rules and procedure provided in this Act.
2. The order of the President of the Republic on a repeat election or conduct of defined electoral activities shall be made public and announced in the Journal of Laws of the Republic of Poland no later than the 5th day after the day of announcement of the Supreme Court's resolution referred to in Article 82, paragraph 3. The provisions of Article 10 shall be applied respectively.
3. The results of repeat elections or electoral activities carried out shall be published by the National Electoral Commission in an announcement. The announcement shall also specify the persons who, as a result of the repeat elections or repeated electoral activities have lost their seats, indicating the number of the electoral constituency and in the case of a seat of a deputy – also the number and name of the list of candidates.
4. The announcement, referred to in paragraph 3 above, shall be published in the Journal of Laws of the Republic of Poland and shall be submitted to the Marshal of the Seym or the Marshal of the Senate respectively.