The ODIHR and PACE election observation reports found that a “large number of public infrastructure projects were announced, initiated or inaugurated during before and during the campaign by the incumbent president or government representatives who were also candidates. Candidates sometimes failed to distinguish their official functions from political party campaigns, thus attributing government achievements to the ruling coalition. The use of administrative resources gave the ruling coalition a significant advantage of incumbency, benefiting from extensive media coverage and echoes in the social networks.” ’Recent legislative changes introduced a ban on the media coverage of opening or inaugurating events of projects of public benefit by State officials, who are also candidates, in a period of 10 days prior to election day. The provision was respected on most media monitored, but this period is too short to be an effective safeguard of a level playing field”.