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will be up to the Constitutional Court of BiH to decide whether this mode of election is compatible with the Constitution of BiH and with Europe’s electoral heritage. It might however consider that the composition of the House of Peoples of the Federation is not merely designed to reflect the participation of its 10 cantons in the legislative process; that, it aims instead to ensure the representation of the constituent peoples on a parity basis, ensuring that each constituent people has the same number of representatives and basically acts like a “veto” chamber of the Federation’s Legislature.