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Article 11.01
 

            The National Assembly of the Republika Srpska shall consist of eighty-three (83) members, who shall be directly elected by voters registered to vote for the Republika Srpska. A certain number of members shall be elected from multi-member constituencies under the proportional representation formula set forth in Article 9.6 of this law.  There shall be compensatory mandates from the Republika Srpska as a whole according to Article 9.7 of this law.  The National Assembly of the Republika Srpska shall determine, based solely on the guidelines set forth in Article 11.2 of this law, what shall be the number of mandates and boundaries for multi-member constituencies and the number of compensatory mandates.

 

A minimum number of four (4) members of each constituent people shall be represented in the National Assembly of Republika Srpska.

 

A voter shall have one ballot for the proportional representation mandates in the multi-member constituency for which the voter is registered.

 

The mandate of members of the National Assembly of the Republika Srpska shall be four (4) years.