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Paragraph 55
 

The Slovenian National Assembly consists of 90 deputies, elected by proportional electoral system. According to Article 64 of the Constitution of the Republic of Slovenia the Italian and Hungarian ethnic communities shall be directly represented at the local level and shall also be represented in the National Assembly. This guarantee to the members of the two national minorities is further developed in Article 80 of the Constitution which defines that "the Italian and Hungarian ethnic communities shall always be entitled to elect one Deputy each to the National Assembly." Members of these two national minorities have dual voting rights, so Italian and Hungarian deputies are elected by all members of those national minorities with voting rights but voters from national minorities can vote at the same time for ordinary candidates.