The proposed amendments make changes to the local election system in Articles 18, 140, 148, 155, and 162. A new Article 18(3) provides that the number of local council members elected by the proportional and majoritarian system shall be defined by the present Law and the revised Articles 140 and 155(4) fix the number of seats for each of the 64 local councils (between 18-50) and divide the total number of seats between the proportional and majoritarian contests. The division between proportional and majoritarian seats has been changed in favour of a significantly higher proportion of proportional seats in each municipality.In addition, the revised Article 148 lowers the electoral threshold in proportional contests from 4 to 3 per cent for all localities (except Tbilisi), and the revised Article 162 lowers the threshold for Tbilisi municipality from 4 to 2.5 per cent. While there is no international standard for electoral thresholds, lowering the threshold offers the potential benefit of increasing political pluralism and aligning the mandates closer to the voters’ will by minimising “wasted” votes. It should however be noted that, due to the natural threshold, the decrease of the threshold will be effective only in those municipalities with about, at least, 20 to 25 seats (the electoral quota being 4 % of the votes in a constituency with 25 proportional seats and 5 % in a constituency with 20 proportional seats).