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While single-member constituencies may be important to ensure a close relationship between voters and constituency representatives, they are prone to corruption, vote buying and fraud in countries where a democratic political culture is not sufficiently established. This is due to the fact that it easier to manipulate elections at the constituency level than at the regional or national level. The majoritarian components of the mixed (parallel) electoral systems in some “new democracies” have been criticised as being potentially vulnerable to undue influence by local business people (with regard to Republic of Moldava see, for instance, CDL-AD(2017)012, para 14; CDL-AD(2018)008, para 21; PACE Doc. 14859, para 22).