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 Other important areas of concern are:

?           provisions for appointment of members of the CEC that limit the prerogative of the appointing institutions established in the Constitution;

?           provisions for appointment of members of the CEC and all lower election commissions that may hinder the professional and non-partisan performance of the election administration;

?           provisions that grant Parliament authority to dismiss a member of the CEC, which likely are contrary to the Constitution;

?           provisions regulating referenda elections, which likely are contrary to the Constitution;

?          ambiguity in registration provisions that could permit political parties and coalitions to change the order of candidates on a candidates list after elections;

?           lack of sufficient provisions for the timely and accurate compilation and updating of voter registers;

?           extraordinarily complex rules for the allocation of Parliamentary mandates;

?           unnecessarily complicated counting procedures;

?           vague provisions for the invalidation of election results that fail to take into account the use of two ballot sections;

?           insufficiently detailed rules on political party finances and their disclosure; and

?           inconsistency in the use of definitions and deadlines, as well as in the use of terminology.