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Paragraph 74
 

Certain features of the Electoral Code, which were analysed and recommended upon in the first Joint Opinion, were not changed in the later amendments. These features, where recommendations have not been followed, have not been analysed again in this Joint Opinion, as they were covered by the first Joint Opinion. They are the following recommendations:



- to reconsider the different threshold for political parties and for alliances;
- to consider having minority representatives on ordinary candidate lists, to avoid the possibility of the minority vote to change the political composition of parliament;
- to allow nomination of candidate lists also by groups of citizens;
- to include grounds that may lead to removal of the deputy chair and secretary of the CEC and chair, deputy chair and secretary of a DEC in Article 45 of the Code;
- to reconsider the deadlines for submitting the documents for registration of candidate lists in case of early elections;
- to provide for general prohibition of the misuse of administrative resources;
- to set reasonable deadlines for accreditation of observers and media representatives, including for the second round of elections;
- to include additional measures to enhance the transparency of the tabulation process;
- to lower the electoral thresholds for elections of the Council of Elders of Yerevan, Gyumri and Vanadzor and for returning electoral deposits after the elections;
- to reconsider the additional seats awarded to the winner of the elections of Council to Elders of Yerevan, Gyumri and Vanadzor.