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Paragraph 23
 

The rules on the representation of minorities are made more favourable. Paragraph 2(1) of Article 121 provides that, if no electoral list of a minority reaches the 0,7% threshold, they should be counted as one single list and be admitted to the distribution of seats, if, considered as a single list, they would be entitled to three seats (the text, or at least its translation, is not crystal-clear however). This provision, would benefit from regulating the principles of such mergers (e.g. the sequence of candidates in the summary lists and distribution of the seats among them).