According to the Law, the CEC examines appeals and contestations against decisions and actions of electoral constituency councils and electoral offices of polling stations and makes decisions on their execution (Article 29 (l) and Article 78 (1)). It remains unclear from Article 79 whether such decisions of the CEC may be appealed in the law courts in the region of the electoral office or council (Article 79 (1)) or in the Court of Appeal (Article 79 (3)), as originally it is the decision of district electoral commissions or polling stations’ committees which restrict contestants rights, but a decision is also made by CEC on the contestation. If both ways of procedure are open, a person presenting an appeal has two different possibilities: either to appeal to the CEC (it is possible to appeal straight to the first instance court according to Article 79 (2)) or to appeal the decision of the CEC on the appeal to the Court of Appeal.
