Home > 2.4 Complaints and appeals > MONTENEGRO - Urgent Joint Opinion on the Draft Law on Elections of Members of Parliament and Councillors
 
 
 
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The draft law does not provide for the right to challenge final election results, and the possibility to hold repeat elections is provided only in particular polling stations, but not for an entire municipality or in the whole country, at odds with international standards. It is recommended to reconsider the approach to contesting election results with respect to all types of elections, including by judicial review, as well as to legal standing in such disputes. The law should allow the appeal body to annul elections where irregularities may have affected the outcome. It must be possible to annul the entire election or merely the results for one constituency or one polling station.