It should be emphasised that under international standards, there is no specific model composition of election commissions, at any level, including the central one. Rather, the importance of a broad political consensus on the model chosen for the composition at all levels of the administration is emphasised. Regardless of the composition of an election commission, the electoral law should guarantee that election commissions are established and operate in a manner that is independent and that its members act impartially.[20] Moreover, in practice, the commission and its members should abide by these standards. Although the Georgian Election Code provides the basics for such principles, in some respects the law can be improved to provide a greater assurance of these standards (see comments and recommendations below). Furthermore, in previous elections in Georgia, the guarantees of independence of the election administration and the impartiality of its members provided for in the law were not put into practice, despite the recent major changes to the composition of election commissions.
