The removal of the requirement that candidate lists contain at least 2/3 of candidates to be elected (Article 39 in the existing law) allows for individual nomination, thus addressing a long-standing ODIHR recommendation. The draft law also addresses the 2011 Venice Commission and ODIHR recommendation on regulating the rules for dissolution of coalitions that submit joint election lists by requiring coalition agreements. However, the draft would benefit from specific requirement of such dissolution provisions in the given coalition agreements. Alternatively, the election management bodies should be relieved from the task to assess the coalition agreements, especially as the draft foresees the registration of the candidate list of a coalition only if the CEC considers the agreement to contain “clearly defined” rights and responsibilities. Such a clause (Article 65.3) is too vague.