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The draft law does not include an obligation of the authorities to provide objective information about the proposal put to referendum. In addition to the text submitted to the referendum, the Code of Good Practice recommends that an explanatory report or balanced information material from the proposal’s supporters and opponents should be made available to the voters sufficiently in advance. Consideration should be given to including in the draft law an explicit obligation of the authorities to provide objective information about the proposal put to referendum. An explanatory report could be made available at each polling station, instead of the Constitutional Court’s ruling on the constitutionality of the draft proposal, as envisioned in Article 25.2(2) of the draft law.