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Paragraph 59
 

In both Sejdić and Finci as well as in Zornić, the European Court of Human Rights was quite prepared to accept that there is a relatively wide degree of latitude in relation to the election of the second chamber; the problem was that the total disenfranchisement of certain persons was not required to effect a politically acceptable settlement. This difficulty is not applicable to a scenario where no community is excluded from representation; indeed the Election Law of BiH guarantees the equal representation of all constituent peoples and the representation of others.