III. DISCUSSION OF THE DRAFT NATIONAL ELECTIONS LAW AND THE DRAFT ELECTION COMMISSIONS LAW

D. Limitations on Candidacy Rights

Moreover, regrettably, the draft still preserves the possibility of deregistering a candidate after his/her election, which also in theory implies, that a candidate with the majority of votes could be subject to deregistration in the event of any “violations.” This runs contrary to Paragraph 7.9 of the 1990 OSCE Copenhagen Document, which states that “candidates who obtain the necessary number of votes required by law are duly installed in office and are permitted to remain in office until their term expires or is otherwise brought to an end in a manner that is regulated by law in conformity with democratic parliamentary and constitutional procedures.”