For the April 2022 election, the REC decided to verify if candidates had been registered in the special voter register for National Minority Councils, despite that no such criterion is mentioned in the law, and applied these checks only for certain candidates. The REC took four decisions rejecting four different minority lists, one of which was overturned by the Administrative Court. If registration for National Minority Councils is an accurate and objective measurement of a candidate’s national minority affiliation, this criterion could be included in the law and applied to all lists seeking national minority status.