Alternatively, or additionally, there are sometimes provisions for reserved seats that are separately allocated to national minorities (e.g. in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, Slovenia, Romania). However, the notion of setting aside seats reserved for minorities is debatable. While reserved seats might be a short-term mechanism to secure the representation of minorities in a transitional period, in the long term the interests of the minorities and the country itself might be better served by representation through the “ordinary” electoral system. Furthermore, with reserved seats there is always the problem of deciding which minorities should be entitled to have such seats and who legitimately represents the respective minority in parliaments. Nevertheless, as positive measures taken to ensure minimum representation for minorities, reserved seats do not infringe the principle of equality. It may even be foreseen that people belonging to national minorities have the right to vote for both general and national minority lists/candidates, as is the case in Slovenia. In contrast, voters from national minorities in Croatia must decide if they are to be registered in one of the ten territorial constituencies or, on the basis of self-declaration, in one of two special constituencies for national minorities. However, neither candidates nor electors must be required to indicate their affiliation with any national minority (CDL-AD(2002)023rev2-cor, part I.2.4).