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In its Report on Choosing the Date of an Election (CDL-AD(2007)037), the Venice Commission observed that “In many states the Constitution or the electoral law does not precisely determine the date of the ordinary elections, but they contain a fairly strict temporal framework in which the decision on the date of the elections will have to be taken. This framework holds three elements:
(a) it determines the authority that will have to decide on the date of the elections;
(b) it determines the period during which the decision has to be taken;
(c) it determines the period within which the elections will have to be held.” (paragraph 8).