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Against this background, an entirely Proportional Representation system favours the formation of solid political parties or electoral blocs, depriving incentives to isolated and purely local or individual candidatures.  Proportional systems do frequently produce highly fragmented parliaments, but in this case the high threshold makes it more difficult.  In fact, and looking at the 2002 results, the difference between the 4% threshold in force, and the 5% proposed by the draft, would have been none: the sixth party got 6.27%, and the seventh, 3.22%.