The Law assessed in this Opinion is entitled “Law on the partial implementation of the postal vote”. This leads to some unclarity about its intended temporal scope. On the one hand, it appears as a permanent piece of legislation which will be applied to all future elections – of course as long as it is not amended. On the other hand, a decision on the permanent applicability of postal voting will have to be taken after the next elections (Article 35(5), which provides for possible amendments to the Electoral Code and not to the Law. Moreover, “partial implementation” cannot be understood as just meaning that certain conditions have to be filled to provide for the possibility to vote by post in a certain country, since these conditions are defined in Article 8 as “conditions for the partial implementation of the postal vote”. This is confusing and the Moldovan authorities will have to decide after the trial whether they want to deal with postal voting – if kept – in the Electoral Code and/or a special piece of legislation.