On Tuesday 25 June, the Council of Europe’s Venice Commission published two new opinions on Georgia.
One concerns the amendments to the Election Code abolishing gender quotas, the other relates to the follow-up to an opinion of December 2023 (Venice Commission/OSCE) concerning the draft amendments to the Election Code and the Rules of Procedure of the Parliament relating to the composition of the Central Election Commission.
With regard to the abolition of gender quotas in the electoral...