The system for allocation of the mandates favours the first five names at the national level by concentrating mandates on them irrespective of the number of personal votes obtained by each of these. Two opposing principles act here: first, the individual candidates as the accumulator of votes at the territorial level. Second, candidates must unavoidably belong to a certain party or electoral list. The allocation system resolves this privileging what could be called “party designated candidates” (i.e. the first five candidates which, reasonably, will coincide with top leadership) of the national lists over eventually most voted local candidates. The system is certainly a peculiar one but cannot be considered an illegitimate one. Article 53.7 establishes that:
All parliamentary candidates included on the party’s election lists in the territorial election districts are included on the party’s election list of parliamentary candidates in the national election district. Persons not included on the party’s election lists in the territorial election districts are not included on the party’s election list of parliamentary candidates in the national election district.
