(1) For the political parties, the organisations of citizens belonging to national minorities, political alliances and electoral alliances, the electoral threshold for the allotment of mandates represents 5% of the total of validly cast votes at national level.

(2) The independent candidates may be allotted mandates if each of them have acquired, separately, a number of validly cast votes at least equal to the national electoral coefficient. The national electoral coefficient represents the whole number of the ratio between the total number of validly cast votes and the number of mandates for members of the European Parliament distributed to Romania.