The Draft law should provide for a registration system of supporters and opponents prior to the call of the referendum, so that these representatives would have a vote during the stage of registration of the initiative group/question. At present, the draft law provides for official registration of supporters and opponents only after the referendum is called (during the pre-call stage, the entities only have to open fund accounts if they want to campaign during the signature collection stage but are not registered as opponent/supporter). In any case, even if the representatives to the CEC only have consultative status, as is currently provided for in the Draft law, they should be able to take up their position at the start of the stage of registering the initiative group/question to ensure transparency and overall public trust in the early stages of the referendum process.