In February 2021, the National Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia adopted an amendment to the law determining the electoral districts used for parliamentary elections in Slovenia. The amendment minimally changes the system of electorates, which the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Slovenia found to be unconstitutional in 2018. For this paper, we examined the extent to which the new system meets the legal criteria and remedies the unconstitutional situation. The comparative analysis, which includes the old and the new systems as well as two proposals formed by an expert group in 2019, has highlighted several shortcomings of the new system. The new system eliminates the vast differences in district sizes but does not solve the problem of geographically inconsistent constituencies. As a result, the new system may again be subject to constitutional review.
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