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Paragraph 86
 

A distribution of seats was up to now recognised as going against international hard law only in a very specific case. The Code of Good Practice in Electoral Matters is stricter: it provides that “the permissible departure from the norm should not be more than 10%, and should certainly not exceed 15% except in special circumstances (protection of a concentrated minority, sparsely populated administrative entity)”. A non-demographic element can therefore be taken into account up to a certain extent. The Constitutional Court of Georgia, in its decision of 28 May 2015, referred to the Code of Good Practice in Electoral Matters to state that that allowable deviation from proportional allocation of seats may not go above 10% and in exceptional cases, 15%.