The electoral system from which the Armenian Constitutional Commission has drawn inspiration is the recently adopted Italian system. This system provides that if a party passes a threshold of 40% of the votes, it is attributed a minimum of seats which would bring the party to 54% of the seats. If no party has been able to pass the 40% threshold, a second round takes place between the two parties that received most votes in the first round. The party winning the second round is attributed 54% of the seats. The remaining seats are allocated to the other parties in a proportional manner, according to the results of the first round. This system has been adopted after a rather long period of instability and with the aim of finding a better balance between governability and representation. This system is the fruit of a long experience. It is not necessarily transferrable to a country which is making the choice of a parliamentary system and will experiment it for the first time.