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Paragraph 33
 

In the Yumak and Sadak case from 2007, the ECtHR found that the 10% threshold in Turkey did not violate Article 3 of Protocol 1 of the ECHR.23 While the ECtHR concluded that “in general a 10% electoral threshold appears excessive” and recommended it to be lowered, it nonetheless found that in the specific case “the Court is not persuaded that, when assessed in the light of the specific political context of the elections in question, and attended as it is by correctives and other guarantees which have limited its effects in practice, the threshold has had the effect of impairing in their essence the rights secured to the applicants by Article 3 of Protocol No. 1.”24