49In those circumstances, since under Article 5 of the 1977 Law ineligibility, declared by decree, brings to an end the term of office as a Member of Parliament, that institution had no choice but to take note without delay of the declaration, already made by the national authorities, that the appellant's seat was vacant, since, as the Court of First Instance rightly pointed out in paragraph 90 of the judgment under appeal, that declaration concerned a preexisting legal situation resulting exclusively from a decision of those authorities. None of the appellant's arguments in the present appeal undermine that finding.
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