The Commission delegation was informed that already in the past provisional articles had been introduced into the Turkish Constitution by way of constitutional amendment. This concerns notably the Provisional Article 1 of Law 4777 of 27 December 2002.25 According to this article, the last paragraph of Article 67 of the Constitution shall not apply in the first by-elections to be held during the 22nd term of the National Assembly. The last paragraph of Article 67 of the Constitution provides that amendments made in electoral laws shall not be applied to the elections to be held within one year from when the amendments enter into force. This guarantee had been added in 2001, by constitutional amendment of 2 October 2001. The same exception was made by Law No. 5659 of 10 May 2007 introducing Provisional Article 17.