The political parties that are represented in parliament have reportedly come up with a new figure for the deposit. Although they do not often see eye to eye they have managed to find common ground regarding this issue. These political parties do not seem it necessary to discuss the issue further or to explain how they calculated the new deposit. Last Monday the legislators from the coalition as well as the opposition amended the Election Act to make sure that the general elections will be held on May 25th. It had previously been decided that all of the political parties that want to participate in the election race would have to pay a deposit of nearly SRD 900,000 but parliament recently lowered this deposit to SRD 632,000 as the Constitutional Court had ruled against the deposit of nearly SRD 900,000. All Of the factions in parliament deem the new deposit to be fair and acceptable. As part of the election rules, each political party that takes in at least 1% of the votes from all of the registered voters, will get their deposit back. This means that they need at least 3,800 to 4,000 votes to get their money back.  Dew Sharman, chairman of the Committee of Rapporteurs, made it clear that he hopes that political parties will refrain from filing another  lawsuit at the Constitutional Court as this would have a negative impact on the general elections. “I don’t think that there is time for that because than it would be a deliberate attempt at sabotaging the election day of May 25.”