14. The Explanatory Note accompanying the draft law states that the latter is “designed to ensure democratic development of Ukraine, protect constitutional order and territorial integrity of the state from military aggression of the Russian Federation” and that its aim is “to counteract the activities [of banned parties] in support of the Russian Federation’s crimes against the people of Ukraine, distort ideological and historical aspects of the confrontation between Ukraine and the Russian Federation, annexation of Ukraine’s territory and other actions aimed at destroying Ukraine as an independent European state.” It is noted that the Explanatory Note does not cite Ukraine’s notifications of derogation from Article 25 of the ICCPR and Article 3 of the ECHR’s Additional Protocol as part of the justification for the proposed restriction on the right to be elected and, in any case, the application of the draft ban continues for ten years after the lifting of martial law.8