Under the proposed changes, the current five-year residency requirement for mayoral and municipal council candidates would be reduced to one year. While international good practice allows a length of residence requirement to be imposed on nationals for local or regional elections only, the requisite period should not exceed six months (except to protect national minorities). In line with this, ODIHR previously recommended that the five-year residency requirement be lifted. The Venice Commission and ODIHR recommend that either the residency requirement be further reduced to six months or repealed. In addition, contrary to international good practice to not impose residency requirements for elections at the national level, a 10-year residency requirement for parliamentary candidates and a 15-year residency requirement for presidential candidates remain in force. In this regard, previous Venice Commission and ODIHR recommendations to lift the residency requirements for presidential and parliamentary candidates, as well as to repeal other undue eligibility criteria, should be addressed.