Rank-order rules

In order to provide for any vacancies that may occur:

- each group of candidates had a majority vote within the jurisdiction of the department, includes a certain number of substitutes equal to the number of seats to be filled; in the event of a vacancy, it applies to the unelected candidate of the same sex placed at the top of the list in which the vacancy occurred;

- each list of candidates for the proportional representation ballot with national list includes fifty (50) alternate candidates; In the event of a vacancy in a deputy seat, priority is given to the unelected candidate of the same sex placed at the top of the list in which the vacancy occurred.

It then calls on alternate candidates after exhausting the list of unelected candidates, taking gender into account. … (article 154)