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The points raised in the 2014 Joint Opinion remain valid. Concerning political parties and electoral campaign finance, the OSCE/ODIHR pointed out in its Final Report on the 2016 presidential election that although a legislative revision in 2015 “addressed some previous recommendations by the OSCE/ODIHR, the Venice Commission and the Council of Europe’s Group of States against Corruption (GRECO), the legal framework contains a number of gaps and leaves some previous recommendations unaddressed. The legislation does not allow adequate time for effective oversight of financial reports, fails to provide proportionate sanctions for campaign finance violations during signature collection and the campaign […] and does not address third-party campaigning.” The Report concluded that “overall, the regulatory system and its implementation continue to be insufficient to ensure transparency, integrity and accountability of campaign finances, and did not enjoy public confidence.”