The CouncilofEurope upholds the HumanRights Convention, which requires member states to "hold free elections ... which will ensure the free expression of the opinion of the people in the choice of the legislature".
The CouncilofEurope, which monitors humanrights across the continent and has among its members all but the very nastiest countries in Europe, has recently implied that Ukraine will be booted out if its presidential election is dirty.
OSCE, whose codes of conduct it has repeatedly mocked, and from the CouncilofEurope, whose legal conventions on humanrights it has comprehensively flouted.