On 18 August 2022 during the first meeting of the Working Group on electoral reform, one of the long-standing election observer organisations in Georgia, the International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy (ISFED), was not allowed to participate in the Working Group, with the ruling party citing the organisation’s “loss of [political] neutrality”. The government’s decision was criticised both by representatives of the civil society and the opposition. In protest of the decision, a key civil society organisation involved in electoral reform, the Georgian Young Lawyers Association (GYLA), boycotted the Working Group. In the view of ODIHR and the Venice Commission, these developments limited the inclusiveness of the electoral reform process and raised concerns, also bearing in mind the European Commission’s Priority 10 to “ensure the involvement of civil society in decision-making processes at all levels”. Positively, when the draft was finalised and submitted to the Legal Issues Committee of the Parliament, both ISFED and GYLA participated in the meeting during which the draft amendments were discussed, and the draft was amended to address some of their suggestions.