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Article 16
 

The Republic of Croatia guarantees members of national minorities in the Republic of Croatia the exercise of their right to representation in the Parliament.


Members of national minorities in the Republic of Croatia shall have the right to elect eight representatives to the Parliament elected in a special electoral constituency comprised of the territory of the Republic of Croatia.


The provisions of this Act on preferential voting shall not relate to voting for the election of representatives of the national minorities.


With Article 10 of the Act on Amendments to the Act on the Elections of Representatives to the Croatian Parliament (Official Gazette 19/15), which entered into force on 25 February 2015, paragraph 3 was added.


Article 16 was amended by Article 15 of the AAAECSP (Official Gazette 53/03), which entered into force on 2 April 2003; then, with Article 5 of the AAAERCSP (Official Gazette 145/10), which entered into force on 1 January 2011, paragraph 2 was amended and paragraph 3 added, though said Article 5 of the AAAERCSP (Official Gazette 145/10) was repealed by a Decision of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Croatia of 29 July 2011 (Official Gazette 93/11), which entered into force on 10 August 2011.