At any rate, the Venice Commission’s guidelines on stability of electoral law make several exceptions concerning the possibility to adopt amendments, even to fundamental rules, later than one year before elections. One of them concerns the texts “written in the constitution or at a level higher than ordinary law”. This exception should not be understood in a formalistic way but as enabling amendments made by consensus – like the 23 July 2020 amendments in Albania, which took place nine months before elections called for 25 April 2021.