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Paragraph 23
 

Provisional Article 21(B) of the amended Constitution provided that the harmonisation legislation was to be adopted within six months; the related amendments to the electoral legislation significantly exceeded this deadline. Moreover, while the implementation of the 2017 constitutional reform may have required certain technical amendments to the electoral legislation to harmonise it with the new presidential system and other changes impacting the electoral system, this concerns primarily the April amendments. The vast majority of the March amendments cannot be considered strictly required by the need to bring the election legislation in line with the constitutional changes. Of particular concern and contrary to the Code of Good Practice in Electoral Matters are the late amendments to fundamental elements of the electoral system.13


 


13 See Code of Good Practice in Electoral Matters, Interpretative Declaration, par. II.4.