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A few countries address the issue at constitutional level. The Constitution of Malta allows for no more than 5% departure in order to take into account geographical vicinity, differences in density of population and other relevant factors. In Kazakhstan it is a constitutional law which allows 15% departure from the average number of voters per deputy’s mandate in a given administrative-territorial unit. Constitutional limitations may be decided by constitutional courts: in the Republic of Korea, the Constitutional Court held in 2014 that the law which allowed a departure from the norm within 50% is unconstitutional and ordered its reduction to 33.3%.