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It should also be pointed out that Article 10.12 should be read in conjunction with Article 10.16 of the Election Law of BiH, as Article 10.16 provides for the procedure to be applied if the required number of delegates from each constituent people or from among others are not elected in a given cantonal assembly. Under this procedure, the Central Election Commission reallocates seats that are not filled to other cantons, ensuring in this way that the requirement to have one representative of each constituent people in each canton is limited to cantons in which there are such representatives, as required by the Federation’s Constitution. This seems to provide a balanced system for the allocation of seats to the Federation’s House of Peoples.