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Section 21
 

(1) During general municipality elections and by-elections for re-electing an entire local body of representatives national minority candidates may gain mandates via compensatory lists under preferential conditions if at least 25 per cent of the voters enrolled at the time of the setting of the election are voters of the concerned national minority.


(2) If none of the candidates of a national minority  manages to obtain a mandate for mayor or from an individual or (national) compensatory list:


a) the sum of 2/3rd of the average of valid votes required to obtain mandates in single member constituencies has to determined,


b) if a national minority compensatory list obtains more votes than the number calculated according to a) shall receive a preferential mandate. The mandate shall be allocated to the candidate according to Section 16 (2).


(3) The number of the representatives of the municipal body as defined in Section 5 shall be supplemented with the preferential mandate as per (2).


(4) If a mandate of a national minority obtained from a national compensatory list becomes vacant, the next candidate in line of the same national minority with the most votes in the single-member constituency shall fill the seat.


(5) If during a by-election the candidate of the same national minority obtains a seat as mayor or single member constituency representative, his/her the preferential mandate shall terminate.