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Paragraph 39
 

As an affirmative action electoral rule, Germany has chosen to implement no limitation of threshold for political parties representing national minorities. While for other political parties the threshold is 5%, political parties representing national minorities are exempted from the five percent threshold established by the Electoral Act.