Concerning the legislative process of the amendments to the Election Code and to the Law on Political Associations of Citizens, the Venice Commission wishes to reiterate the comments it made on other recent electoral reforms that “the legal framework for carrying out elections should be based on as wide a consensus as possible amongst all the parties participating in an election and that every effort should be made to achieve this shared confidence in the process; at the same time, the ownership of the process can only take place by dialogue amongst all the stakeholders driven by a genuine desire to safeguard and enhance Georgian democracy.”