While in 2006; in the Ždanoka v. Latvia case ([GC], No. 58278/00, 16 March 2006) the ECtHR ruled that the restriction on former communist party members is in line with the Latvian constitution and the ECHR, it held that the parliament, by periodically examining the political situation in the state and the necessity and merits of the restrictions, should decide to establish a time-limit on these restrictions since such limitations on passive electoral rights may exist only for a specific period. Having assessed individual restriction decisions of the Central Electoral Commission on several occasions, the Constitutional Court still considered the norm as conforming with the constitution in June 2018. Nevertheless, it would be worth re-considering whether Latvia’s democratic regime has become sufficiently stable in the last two decades, making such restrictions no longer necessary.