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In 1996, Pope John Paul II changed Vatican procedure to allow an absolute majority of cardinals to elect the next pope if, after 33 rounds of balloting, they remain deadlocked. Pope Benedict XVI has now issued an executive order, called a motu proprio, which restores the Vatican tradition requiring 2/3 of the cardinals in a conclave to agree on the new pontiff. In the 13th c, a deadlocked papal election lasted 3 years, though no conclave has lasted more than 5 days in the past 100 years.