1. The CEC, prior to or during the examination of a request for appeal, has the right to decide to examine it jointly with one or more other requests for appeal submitted by various subjects against the same decision of the CEAZ or, as the case may be, of the CEC, taken in accordance with article 123. Requests for appeal also are joined when two or more subjects request the invalidation of elections in the same electoral zone. The CEC decides to join the requests for appeal when it considers that their joint examination facilitates the review process, or when the separate review of each of the requests for appeal would prejudice the object of the other appeals.
2. When requests for appeal are submitted to the CEC for the same electoral zone and when at least one of them has as its object the invalidity of elections in accordance with article 160 of this Code, the CEC examines first the request for appeal with the object of invalidating the elections. The time limits for the examination of requests for appeal objecting to a CEAZ decision are suspended until the date of the announcement of the CEC decision on the invalidation.
3. The CEC decision to join requests for appeal is a final decision.
4. The CEC decision to join requests for appeal is posted for the public at the entrance of the CEC headquarters no later than two hours after it has been reached.
