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In 1994-5, Professor Anton Buhagiar suggested improvements to Malta's STV system to increase proportionality and eliminate "wrong-winner" elections. After considering various methods of first assigning seats to multi-member constituencies so that strict national proportionality was maintained, he leaned towards the use of a "Priority Queue". This is a rather complex and convoluted method, particularly in the UK with 650 seats to allocate (or rather about 40% of them), and Buhagiar conceded that anomalies will arise whichever method is chosen.<ref>{{cite web |first=Anton |last=Buhagiar |title=THE PRIORITY QUEUE: A FAIR METHOD FOR THE ASSIGNMENT OF SEATS TO DISTRICTS.|url=https://www.um.edu.mt/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/207788/buhag2.pdf|date=June 8, 1995}}</ref> Buhagiar's paper was in fact the seed for Stringer's suggested improvements to Wiseman's original version of PR-Squared.