The question to be addressed here is whether the suppression of the possibility for parties with strong, but only local support to benefit from the exemption contravenes international electoral standards. The Bundestag is designed as a Chamber representing the German nation as a whole. In other words, European election standards do not demand any specific election rules for locally strong political parties (the only analogous requirement involves national minorities that are still favoured in the German electoral legislation). Thus, the German legislator enjoys a wide margin of appreciation in this field, too, and it cannot be concluded that their discretion has been exercised in a disproportionate manner.