In its Opinion on Azerbaijan, the Commission also dealt with two counter-arguments. According to the first of these, the removal of the two-term limit would strengthen the freedom of the voters to choose their President. In the opinion of the Commission, while this argument may sound rather attractive at least in theory, explicit limitations are needed in practice, because an incumbent president may easily use various plebiscitary means in order to strengthen his or her position and secure his or her re-election. The Commission argued that the constitutional limitations on successive terms are … “meant to limit the risk of negative consequences for democracy arising from the fact that a same person has the possibility of occupying the presidency for an excessive period of time”.