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XII. Complaints and appeals









CEAZs decisions can be appealed to the CEC and CEC decisions can be appealed to the Electoral College. Article 123 sets an exception requiring that CEC decisions on the approval of the Aggregate Table of Results per Electoral Zone be appealed to the CEC. While approval of the Aggregate Table of Results requires a simple majority of four out of seven votes, upholding a complaint against such approval requires a qualified majority of five votes (Article 24.1.b). As the 2009 and 2011 elections have shown, a qualified majority is very rarely obtained in such cases, since that can only be possible if at least two CEC members among those who originally approved the results change their minds and overturn their own decision. Consequently, no effective remedy is guaranteed in this case.