CDL-AD(2024)010 Georgia - Follow-up Opinion on the Election Code

Strasbourg, 24 June 2024 CDL-AD(2024)010 Or. Engl. EUROPEAN COMMISSION FOR DEMOCRACY THROUGH LAW (VENICE COMMISSION) GEORGIA FOLLOW-UP OPINION TO THE JOINT OPINION OF THE VENICE COMMISSION AND ODIHR ON THE DRAFT AMENDMENTS TO THE ELECTION CODE AND TO THE RULES OF PROCEDURE OF THE PARLIAMENT Approved by the Council for Democratic Elections at its 80th meeting (Venice, 20 June 2024) and adopted by the Venice Commission at its 139th Plenary Session (Venice, 21-22 June 2024) On the basis of comments by Mr Nicos ALIVIZATOS (Member, Greece) Mr Michael FRENDO (Member, Malta) Ms Katharina PABEL (Substitute Member, Austria) www.venice.coe.int CDL-AD(2024)010 I. -2- Opinion No. 1179/2024 Introduction 1. By letter of 7 March 2024, Ms Zanda Kalnina-Lukasevica, the President of the Monitoring Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, requested an Opinion of the Venic …