Law No. 7393 has changed this system, replacing the two-stage allocation with a single-stage allocation, in which the seats are distributed among all parties regardless of whether they are part of any electoral alliance, and independent candidates using again the d’Hondt method. As the Briefing of the European Parliament rightly notes, “the 'd'Hondt method' is a mathematical formula used widely in proportional representation systems, although it leads to less proportional results than other systems for seat allocation (…). Moreover, it tends to increase the advantage for the electoral lists which gain most votes to the detriment of those with fewer votes”. With electoral alliances no longer being considered as a single subject for the application of the d’Hondt method, alliances will not any more benefit from the advantage given to lists with most votes, nor will parties belonging to them take profit from votes lost in the allocation by other partners of the alliance. Although all methods of seat allocation result in a certain number of votes being wasted, the use of a single-stage allocation, when combined with the high electoral threshold, risks operating in clear disfavour of smaller parties belonging to an electoral alliance, thus limiting the impact of the creation of this alliance.