(1) The right to a deputy municipality head, mayor or county prefect from among national minorities is prescribed pursuant to the provisions of the Constitutional Act on the Rights of National Minorities and the acts regulating the system of local and regional self-government.

(2) National minorities for whom the right to a deputy municipality head, mayor or county prefect from among members of national minorities is prescribed by the statute of the unit, shall also have the right to a deputy municipality head, mayor or county prefect from among members of national minorities regardless of the share of members of national minorities in the total population of the unit.