By letter dated 18 June 2018, the Minister for Relations with Constitutional Bodies, Civil Society and Human Rights of Tunisia, Mr Mehdi Ben Gharbia, asked the Venice Commission to prepare an opinion on the draft institutional law on the organisation of political parties and their funding (CDL-REF(2018)035, hereafter: “the draft law”), which is due to replace Legislative Decree no. 2011-87 of 24 September 2011 on the organisation of political parties, which is currently in force (CDL-REF(2018)036).