68. Regarding elections to the council of elders of communities, Article 141 part 6 in its current form provides the following: if as a result of the distribution of mandates, more than 70 per cent of the mandates of a political party are distributed among representatives of the same sex, the mandates of the more represented sex exceeding 70 per cent shall be passed on to the candidates under the smallest number from the less represented sex.58 By this, a representation of at least 30 per cent of each sex shall be guaranteed. However, according to the Rationale of the draft amendments, in practice this approach led to mass recusal or waiver of the mandate making the requirement of the law merely formal. Therefore, the draft suggests that where there are no representatives of the less represented sex in the electoral list, those mandates shall remain vacant. By this amendment, the legislator aims at helping avoid formal nominations and cases of forced self-revocation taking into account the risk of losing the mandate.