The Venice Commission has highlighted that “[t]he exercise of political power by people who seriously infringed the law puts at risk the implementation of [the] principle [of legality], which is on its turn a prerequisite of democracy, and may therefore endanger the democratic nature of the state. It is therefore justified to restrict their right to be elected”. It may be acknowledge d that members of executive bodies of a party as well as MPs representing this party in the legislative body are not just ordinary members who are generally not involved in the decision making process of the party and the exercise of its everyday policies. On the contrary, they are in principle in the very core of party policies and activities, as party leadership along with the parliamentary group is the most important decis ion making circle in the political organisation. While some of them may have seriously infringed the legislation, thus leading to the declaration of unconstitutionality of the party by the Constitutional Court, not all persons targeted by the law are neces sarily responsible, or even aware, of the actions which led to such consequences for the party. In particular, the Law refers to party members holding an elected office, which would also encompass elected members of a local council, village or even small t own who may only be remotely involved in the decision making process of the party. The Law does not provide for individualised decisions and considers a whole group as collectively responsible for these violations. This leads in practice to a general, automatic and indiscriminate application of restrictive measure s , thus going against the principles of proportionality and prohibi tion of arbitrariness guaranteed by Article 3 of Protocol 1 to the ECHR and other international treaties and standards in the field of elections.