28. It must be noted that Article 19 of the Law of Ukraine on the Legal Regime of Martial Law prohibits the holding of presidential, parliamentary and local elections during martial law. Thus, the draft law appears to aim for restrictions that will in practice only be applied after the martial law is lifted, while the derogations which are justified by the introduction of martial law should in principle no longer be in place when martial law ends or would in principle no longer be “strictly required by the exigencies of the situation”. The draft law provides for a sunset clause whereby all the new provisions being introduced, including the restrictions on the right to stand for election, shall cease to be effective ten years after the termination or abolition of martial law introduced on 24 February 2022. The temporal scope of application of such limitations, as suggested in the draft law, appears unduly long. Also,