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Article 52
 

(1) The Constitutional Court shall annul the elections result in case it establishes that the poll or that the ascertaining of the elections result has taken place by fraud liable to modify the allotment of the mandate, or, respectively, the order of the candidates who may participate in the second round. In this situation, the Court shall order the voting on the second Sunday of the date of the annulment of the elections result.


(2) The application for the annulment of the elections may only be submitted by the political parties, political or electoral alliances, organisations of citizens belonging to national minorities, as well as by the independent candidates that took part in the elections, within maximum 3 days after the voting is closed; the application shall be based on solid grounds, and accompanied by the relevant proofs.


(3) The application for the annulment of the elections by the Constitutional Court shall be settled within the date established by law for bringing the elections result to public knowledge.