The Code of good practice in electoral matters admits that suffrage may be conditioned by the nationality requirement. “However, it would be advisable for foreigners to be allowed to vote in local elections after a certain period of residence’’. Both the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities and ODIHR have pointed to the desirable enfranchisement of long-term foreign residents. Several election reports refer to “an emerging trend to grant voting rights for local elections to long-term residents who are not citizens’’. The Venice Commission and ODIHR recommend considering the extension of the right to vote and to be elected in local elections to long-term foreign residents.