The Venice Commission is highly concerned that none of its recommendations has been taken into account by the Georgian authorities, not even partly. The Commission stresses once again that the – now adopted – amendments are clearly insufficient to ensure a consensus-based political process which is crucial for the independence and impartiality of the CEC and for public trust in this institution. One of the major concerns is related to the new anti-deadlock mechanism for filling vacant positions, which provides for the possibility of two additional rounds of voting under which the candidates can be elected by simple majority,19 and which bears the risk that the ruling party alone can elect the (non-partisan) CEC members and Chairperson.