In the first Joint Urgent Opinion on the draft amendments to the Electoral Code, the Venice Commission and OSCE/ODIHR made four key and several other recommendations. The revised version of the draft amendments takes into account significant elements of the key recommendations, notably:

-  a qualified (two-thirds) parliamentary majority vote has been introduced for the election of the chairperson and non-partisan members of the Central Election Commission (CEC), with a final anti-deadlock mechanism;

-  the specific restrictions of the right for a party to appoint a member to an election commission, i.e. the conditions that the party is entitled to state funding and that at least one of the party members actually “carries out activities of the member of the Parliament” thus excluding parties boycotting Parliament, have been removed.