Like the measures analysed in the previous Joint Opinion, the ones introduced by the amendments are intended at enforcing a preventive mechanism following the declaration of unconstitutionality of a political party. The ineligibility to be elected provided for by the amendments is intended to have a preventive character and not a punitive one, and therefore cannot be assimilated to a criminal charge in the sense of Article 6 ECHR. As long as all authorities’ decisions or public statements do not pronounce themselves or infer the determination of guilt, the ineligibility to stand for election on the basis of Article 16(2)(f)(1) is not per se incompatible with the presumption of innocence.