(1) The Electoral Commission shall establish the results of the elections and include them in separate minutes.

(2) Each electoral list shall be entitled to the number of mandates proportionally to the number of votes it has won.

(3) The Electoral Commission shall establish the number of mandates belonging to each electoral list.

(4) The distribution of mandates shall include electoral lists that have won the votes of at least 5% of the total number of votes cast.

(5) Political parties of national minorities and coalitions of national minority political parties shall participate in the distribution of mandates even if they have won less than 5% of the total number of votes cast.

(6) Political parties of national minorities are all those parties whose main goal is to represent and advocate for the interests of a national minority and the protection and improvement of the rights of persons belonging to national minorities, in accordance with international legal standards.

(7) Whether the submitter of an electoral list has the status of a national minority political party or national minority political coalition shall be subject to a decision of the Electoral Commission of the local self-government unit when the electoral list is submitted and at the request of the submitter of the electoral list.