A more important innovation is the stipulation of Article 102 that, unless the CEC “issues consent” upon relevant notices from the Prosecutor’s office, the immunity of parliamentary candidates must not be lifted before the electoral results have officially been published. Especially in view of the negative experiences during the 1999 elections, the legislator was right to delimit the power of the CEC in this respect. Since the formulation (“issues consent”) seems to be still too vague (at least in the English translation), it might be put even more precisely, being replaced by “unanimously decides”.
