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Paragraph 46
 

The competent electoral commission has no power to address the content of the question submitted to the voters (see Article 17; Article 33 only requires clarity and a binary question, but the electoral commission does not intervene in the supervision of such requirements). The draft law explicitly states that the competent committee of the Assembly or the Assembly (at the national, provincial or local level) decides on the substantive validity of the text of the referendum (Article 48.2, Article 49.2, Article 50.3, Article 51.3, and Article 52.2).These tasks should belong to an election commission or another impartial authority.The Venice Commission recommends revising the relevant provisions of the draft.