In principle, it is a welcome development that the Ukrainian legislature took the initiative to draft amendments to the legal framework regarding the issue of holding or not holding elections in certain territories, in response to public and international criticism of the applicable legislation and the decision not to hold the 2020 local elections in 18 territorial communities. The approach of the draft law to extend the legal framework on this issue to include elections both at the national and local levels, as well as referendums, and thus to aim for a comprehensive and consistent legal framework, is a positive development. The Explanatory Note to the draft amendments recognises certain shortcomings in the current legislation, which “negatively affect the ensuring of voting rights for citizens”. It further states that the overall purpose of the reform is to “provide a comprehensive and objective procedure for analysing the security situation when deciding on the impossibility of holding national and local elections in certain territories or polling stations which would preclude unjustified restrictions on the voting rights of citizens and the right of territorial communities to local self-government”.