The “misuse of public resources” is widely recognised as the unlawful behaviour of civil servants, incumbent political candidates and parties to use their official positions or connections to government institutions aimed at influencing the outcome of elections. Nevertheless, this definition does not cover the exact scope of this report. Indeed, the report highlights the problem of constant, or frequent, practice of misuse of administrative resources by both incumbents and civil servants during electoral processes. The assumption is therefore the following: there are among the Venice Commission member states inherent weaknesses in legislation and in practice that may lead to misuse of administrative resources, giving an undue advantage to incumbent political parties and candidates vis-à-vis their challengers, thus affecting the equality of electoral processes.