80th meeting of the Council for Democratic Elections
20/06/2024
Venice, Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista - The 80th meeting of the Council for Democratic Elections was held on 20 June 2024 in Venice, Italy. During this meeting, the Council approved:
• the draft Opinion on amendments to the Election Code which abolish gender quotas of Georgia;
• the draft Follow-up Opinion to the Joint Opinion on the draft amendments to the Election Code and to the Rules of Procedure of the Parliament of Georgia;
• the draft Interim Opinion on possible legislative solutions to conduct future electoral processes in Haiti;
• the draft Opinion on the Law of the Republic of Moldova on the partial implementation of the postal vote; and
• the draft Revised interpretative declaration to the Code of Good Practice in Electoral Matters on the Stability of electoral law.
The Council for Democratic Elections is the only tripartite body of the Council of Europe, comprising members of the Venice Commission, the Parliamentary Assembly and the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe. Its aim is to unite the legal experience of the Venice Commission and the political experience of the Assembly and the Congress and to examine all the opinions relating to States and documents of a general nature concerning elections before their submission for adoption by the Venice Commission.