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Both the current and the proposed legal framework allow for adopting a decision not to hold an election – local elections under the current law, also national elections and referendums under the draft law – in certain territories in which civil-military administrations have been established and thereby interfere with the right to vote and to be elected. The right to participate in universal, free and fair elections is one of the most important political human rights, which is enshrined in all major human rights instruments.