The EU EOM believes it necessary for the CSE to improve the training it provides to staff in electoral councils at all levels, as well as to polling station staff. Training programmes should be announced with adequate notice, and simultaneously to all political parties. The bringing forward of training and swearing-in of polling station staff was communicated to the ruling party with one week’s notice, and only 24 hours’ notice was given to opposition parties, severely impeding their ability to ensure their representation within polling station boards. It is obligatory to abide by the dates established in the electoral calendar, except when faced with unforeseeable circumstances or force majeure, and then only with due consultation of all parties. Violation of this legal provision is all the more serious when it harms some parties while benefitting others, as happened with the unexpected and unjustified early publication of the provisional results.