The most problematic regulations should be amended and completed. These should urgently include the following:
- Amendments to the Rules of Procedures of the IEC to introduce stricter decision-making procedures should be introduced to increase transparency.
- A regulation on certification of results should clearly establish the conditions in which ballot papers should be invalidated by the IEC. A regulation should also be introduced to set out tally procedures and triggers for audits.
- A regulation should impose a deadline for the IEC to declare the locations of all polling centres, to ensure timely information to voters, observers and party and candidate agents. On the basis of this regulation, the IEC should also adopt, before an established deadline, a list of all polling stations and centres.
- Particular care should be paid to the need for the IEC to correct preliminary results prior to their publication and the mandatory implementation of decisions of adjudications of the complaints on results.