Furthermore, for the forthcoming 2025 municipal elections, Art. 2038 of the Election Code hereabove mentioned empowers the CEC, by 1 August 2025, not only to “establish [new] electoral districts”, but also to “define and/or modify their boundaries”, as well as to “establish and/or modify boundaries of local single-seat majoritarian electoral districts” in Tbilisi and throughout the country. The lack of criteria in authorising the election administration to do the above is problematic with respect to the principle of the separation of powers, because it is tantamount to a delegation of legislative power en blanc (Article 36 of the Georgian Constitution). Since the Electoral Code does not provide any criteria determining the decision on constituency delineation, it is in the wide discretion of these bodies to establish the boundaries of the electoral districts, and it is not a mere implementation of law with a narrow margin of discretion. The Venice Commission recalls that, whereas rules on implementation such as those on technical questions and matters of detail, can be in the form of regulations, the electoral rules should have the rank of statute law. Mandating the CEC/DEC with establishing or modifying electoral districts contradicts the conditions for the implementation of the principles of the European electoral heritage, as the regulatory level of the respective rules have been lowered to a regulation. As described above, the relevant rules do not deal with “technical question or matters of detail” but concern a fundamental element of the electoral law.