Nevertheless, recall enables voters to put an end to an elective mandate. Therefore, in order not to be at odds with representative democracy and the representative system, based on elections at regular intervals and the free mandate of elected officials until the next elections, where constitutional and/or legislative provisions are open to recall this should be regulated very carefully and only be used as an exceptional tool, as a complement to other democratic mechanisms which are available in a representative system – including other direct and participatory democracy instruments, if available.