Article 64 of the Constitution of Albania establishes five constitutional principles regulating the electoral system for the Parliament:
? the Parliament consists of 140 deputies;
? one hundred deputies are elected directly in single member electoral zones;
? forty deputies are elected from multi-name lists of parties or party coalitions according to their ranking;
? the total number of deputies of a party or a party coalition shall be, to the closest possible extent, proportional to the valid votes won by them on the national scale in the first round of elections; and
? parties that receive less than 2.5 per cent, and party coalitions that receive less than 4 per cent, of the valid votes on the national scale in the first round of elections do not benefit from the respective multi-name list.[33]
