- Author:
Agata Hauser
- E-mail:
ahauser@amu.edu.pl
- Institution:
Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
- ORCID:
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6382-3800
- Year of publication:
2020
- Source:
Show
- Pages:
33-44
- DOI Address:
https://doi.org/10.15804/ppk.2020.06.02
- PDF:
ppk/58/ppk5802.pdf
The European Commission for Democracy Through Law was created in 1990 and for the last three decades has adopted a number of documents of related to electoral standards in democratic states. They include legal opinions on national laws (or draftlaws), as well as documents of a more general nature, concerning specific topics (studies, reports). In this article, the author aims at presenting the main documents that include the electoral standards developed by the Venice Commission. However, as the opinions of the Venice Commission are not binding, the second part of this contribution presents the way this contribution of the Venice Commission is taken into account in the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights in cases concerning the alleged violations of the right to free elections.