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Article 94
 

Candidate lists which received at least 3% of the total number of valid votes in the electoral district shall take part in the allocation of seats.


As an exception to para.1 of this Article:


1)candidate lists for election of MPs members of a certain national minority or minority ethnic community indicated in the application to contest elections or in the title of the candidate list, if none of them meet the requirement referred to in para.1 of this Article, or if they individually receive at least 0.7% of valid votes, shall acquire the right to participate in the allocation of seats as a single - general candidate list with the total number of valid votes received, provided that aggregation that ensures the winning of up to three seats shall be allowed for the purposes of computating the number of seats;


2) where none of the candidate lists for election of MPs members of the Croatian people in Montenegro meets the requirements referred to in para.1 of this Article and item 1 of this paragraph, the most successful of them, with at least 0.35% valid ballots, shall acquire the right to one MP seat;


3) candidate lists for election of MPs members of a certain minority nation or minority ethnic community indicated in the application to contest elections or title of the candidate list, where none of them meets the requirement referred to in para.1 of this Article, shall acquire the right to participate in the allocation of seats individually, with the number of valid votes they have received.


The right referred to in para.2 item 1 of this Article shall be used by candidate lists of members of a certain (of the same) minority nation or of a certain (of the same) minority ethnic community, whose share is up to 15% in the total population of the electoral district, according to the last population census data.


The right referred to in para.2 item 3 of this Article shall be used by candidate lists of members of a certain (of the same) minority nation or of a certain (of the same) minority ethnic community, whose share is up to 15% in the total population at state level and from 1.5% to 15% in the total population in the territory of a municipality, Administrative Capital or Historic Royal Capital, according to the last population census data.


Participation of a candidate list of members of a certain minority nation or minority ethnic community in a pre-election coalition with candidate lists of members of other minority nations or minority ethnic communities or candidate lists of political parties or groups of citizens that are not exercising the right referred to in para.2 of this Article shall not preclude other candidate list submitting entities of the same minority nation or minority ethnic community from exercising the right referred to in para.2 of this Article.