By letter of 11 March 2024, the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe requested an opinion of the Venice Commission on the Emergency Ordinance regarding some measures for the organisation and conduct of the elections for members from Romania in the European Parliament in 2024 and the elections for local public administration authorities in 2024. Enclosed with his request was a letter from Mr Iulian Bulai, a Member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Romanian Parliament and of PACE, which put the emphasis on aspects of the text he considered problematic.