Home > 2.4 Complaints and appeals > MOLDOVA – Urgent joint opinion on the draft Law no. 263 amending the Electoral Code, the Contravention Code and the Code of Audiovisual Media Services
 
 
 
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The draft Law introduces a number of changes in the Electoral Code’s provisions on complaints and appeals (Articles 71-74 of the Electoral Code). In contrast to the current procedure, the draft Law establishes jurisdiction of election bodies over complaints related to actions (inaction) of the election administration (CEC, district election commissions – DECs -, PEBs), the Audiovisual Council as well as against electoral contestants, candidates, initiative groups, referendum participants and media service providers (revised Article 72.1). Decisions of election bodies may be appealed to higher election bodies and then to courts (Articles 71.1-3). The draft Law retains most of the deadlines for election dispute resolution and the possibility to challenge the actions and inactions of the electoral contestants in addition to the appeals against the election administration.