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In any case, it will be up to the Constitutional Court of BiH to provide an authoritative assessment of the Election Law of BiH. In the Venice Commission’s view, the Election Law of BiH seems to depart slightly from what is “proportionality”, as mandated by the Constitution of the Federation in the allocation of seats to the House of Peoples of the Federation. However, a solution might be envisaged by which the provision of the Election Law of BiH (“Each constituent people shall be allocated one seat in every canton”) be interpreted as worded in the Constitution of the Federation (“In the House of Peoples there shall be at least one Bosniac, one Croat, one Serb from each Canton which has at least one such delegate in its legislative body”).