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Paragraph 63
 
63.  Article 94 of the Law on Parliamentary Elections provides that electoral complaints can be lodged by a voter, candidate or authorized persons submitting the nomination of a candidate list. Complaints are submitted to the REC, which has the power to take decisions by a majority vote of its full membership. The deadline for submitting a complaint to the REC is 24 hours, which is extremely short. This short timeframe for lodging complaints to the REC begins from the moment that a contested decision is taken, raising the concern that, should the complainant not receive notification of the decision in a timely manner, it may be too late to appeal to the REC. The OSCE/ODIHR and the Venice Commission recommend that the law be amended to extend the deadline of 24 hours to a more reasonable period of time in order to take into account any delay between the adoption of a decision and the notification of the decision to the person affected by it.[12]