Submission of Complaints

(1) Within 3 calendar days following the date of committing the action or adopting the decision, such actions/inactions and decisions issued by electoral bodies may be challenged at their hierarchically superior body, while the actions/inactions of candidates may be challenged directly in Courts. The term for submitting the complaint is calculated starting with the next day of the day when the action/ inaction was committed, identified or when the decision was adopted.

(2) In local elections, the District Electoral Councils decisions on the complaints, related to the actions/inactions of candidates made by the electoral councils shall be appealed in Court under the authority of which the respective electoral council falls.

(3) Complaints against the actions and decisions of the Central Electoral Commission shall be submitted to Chisinau Court of Appeal without complying with the preliminary procedure within 3 calendar days when the action was committed or when the decision was adopted.

(4) A candidate’s complaint cannot be submitted by the member of the respective election body; it may be submitted by the representative of the candidate in the respective election body or by a person empowered by the candidate by a proxy-letter.

(5) If complaint consideration is not under the jurisdiction of the respective election body, the complaint and all its enclosures shall be sent to the appropriate authority for consideration without delay within 2 calendar days at most after its receipt.