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One possible measure to strengthen the oversight of party and campaign financing would be the establishment of an independent Directorate of Financial Control in the CEC, as foreseen in the 2012 draft law which was not adopted. According to the draft, the Head of the Directorate should be appointed following an open and transparent recruitment procedure. The 2013 Joint Opinion supported such a move and noted positively that only such persons should be eligible for Head of the Directorate, who have not been members of political parties for the five preceding years: given that the Central Election Commission is made up of members appointed by political figures/institutions (i.e. the President of the Republic and Parliament), "appointing such an individual as leading the oversight over financing of political parties and electoral contestants would help remove any suspicions of potentially politically motivated sanctions against political parties."