CHAPTER THREE: DEMOCRACY AND POLITICAL GOVERNANCE associations to strengthen the capacity of these associations, as well as enhance transparency and communication on their activities. iii. Recommendations 197. The APR Panel would like to recommend the following corrective and supportive actions: 1. Amend the legislation on political parties and associations to promote their development and strengthen their free political expression: provisions related to their establishment, the adoption of constitutions and objectives, and access to the media. (Attention: the government in conjunction with political parties and civil society; the parliament) 2. Improve the standard of electoral representation in the assemblies by the amendment of various electoral laws. A possible solution is to introduce a preferential vote and to vote for candidates from different parties, as in the German example. Another solution would be to encourage and ensure legal guarantees for exercising democracy within the statutory bodies of all political parties. (Attention: the government in conjunction with political parties; the parliament; associations and civil society movements in conjunction with political parties) 3. Ensure better representation of the country‟s sociocultural diversity by adopting selection methods that ensure greater presence of the populations from the South. (Attention: the government in conjunction with political parties; the parliament) 4. Accelerate the procedures for adopting legislation aimed at promoting decentralisation. Such laws would provide, in particular, for: increased power in the commune (communal affairs); improved communal resources and financial autonomy (see Chapter Four, especially in relation to fiscal decentralisation); greater powers and financial resources of the APW and its president, to achieve greater institutional equilibrium between elected bodies and state representation (the Wali); improved institutional capacities of the APC and the APW; support from the APW for communes falling within its jurisdiction; easing administrative control over the deliberations and actions of local assemblies in order to achieve greater accountability of local elected members towards their electorate; gradual transfer of power and resources from the state to decentralised territorial administrations, in terms of economic, social (education and 76