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"Any departure from the principle of universal suffrage risks undermining the democratic validity of the legislature thus elected and the laws which it promulgates. Exclusion of any groups or categories of the general population must accordingly be reconcilable with the underlying purposes of Article 3 of Protocol No. 1 (see Sukhovetsky v. Ukraine, no. 13716/02, § 52, ECHR 2006-VI ; Russian Conservative Party of Entrepreneurs and Others v. Russia, nos. 55066/00 and 55638/00, § 49, 11 January 2007; Krasnov and Skuratov v. Russia, nos. 17864/04 and 21396/04, § 41, 19 July 2007; and Kovach v. Ukraine, no. 39424/02, § 50, ECHR 2008).
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