72Next, the Electoral Act defines the temporal limits of the term of office for which Members of the European Parliament are elected by stipulating, in Article 5(1) and (2), that that term of office coincides with the five-year period which begins at the opening of the first session following each election, with the result that it begins and ends at the same time as that five-year period.
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