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Article 23
 

23.1. The term of an election commissions’ authority shall be 5 years.


23.2. if the right of citizens to participate in election and referendum are violated by a lower election commission and as a result of such actions the Central Election Commission (or a court) invalidates the results of voting in the relevant territory, the Central Election Commission may dissolve this lower election commission.
Complaints on the decision of the Central Election Commission to dissolve the lower election commission may be filed with the Court of Appeal of The Republic of Azerbaijan. The complaint shall be accepted immediately for consideration and a relevant decision shall be made within no later than 3 days. Not later than a week after the decision of the Court of Appeal of the Republic of Azerbaijan on this issue takes effect, a relevant lower election commission should be formed in the order established by this Code.


23.3. if an election commission is dissolved and formed again as in the cases mentioned in this Code, the term of authority of the newly formed election commission shall be limited to the term of authority of the dissolved one.