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Paragraph 72
 

The existing Article 14(1)(e) provides that the CEC establish by ordinance the electoral districts and/or specify their boundaries, as determined under this Law. Existing Article 18(2) provides that for local self-government elections, (majoritarian) electoral districts shall be set up, and their boundaries, titles and numbers determined by CEC ordinance. However, the law does not require that the (majoritarian) electoral districts for local elections be of equal or comparable size (except within the municipality of Tbilisi), thus failing to guarantee one of the main principles of electoral rights, equality of the vote. Moreover, the legislation does not provide clear rules for delimitation of constituencies for local elections and does not specify any criteria for legally permissible deviations among electoral constituencies, and justification for any exceptional cases. The law also does not establish an independent committee in charge of drawing the boundaries of the electoral constituencies, as recommended by the Code of Good Practicein Electoral Matters.