 This provision was met with harsh commentary from the press who criticized the system as a method through and around which incompetent candidates move in their search for a Diet position.Candidates who ‘died’ in the SMD were then to be ‘revived’ in the PR as ‘zombie Diet members.’ Despite no major laws were enacted to address the controversy, press complaints declined with the 2000 electoral law revision in which candidates who failed to collect at least one-tenth of the effective vote in an SMD election are immediately disqualified.On another note, the 1996 election saw higher incidence of by-elections.