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Article 76
 

(1) If none of the candidates acquires the amount of votes specified in Article 75, the designated local authority in the seat of election district shall organise a second round no later than six days after the end of the first round.


(2) Only the first two candidates who acquired the highest amount of votes in the first round shall run in the second round in any given election district where the second round is taking place.


(3) If any of the two candidates who acquired the highest amount of votes in the first round resigns, is legally disqualified or dies before the second round, he/she shall be replaced by the candidate who finished third in the first round. In such a case, the second round shall take place thirteen days after the end of the first round.


(4) The printing of ballot tickets shall be organised in compliance with Article 67 Sections 1 through 3, with the ballot tickets of the two most successful candidates from the first round printed on paper of a different colour. All ballot tickets shall be sent by designated local authorities in the seat of the election district to mayors of local authorities who shall organise their distribution among individual district election commission before the beginning of the voting. All voters shall receive their ballot tickets at polling stations on election days.


(5) The candidate acquiring the highest amount of votes in the second round shall be elected. If the same amount of votes is given to the candidates, the candidate that is to become a senator shall be drawn.


(6) The provisions of this act of law concerning the elections to the Senate shall be applied to the second round of the elections accordingly; the second sentence of Section 1, Article 66 shall not be applied.