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Article 22
 

Decision


1 - On the day following the submission of a coalition for the Constitutional Court to take note of it, a chamber of the Court shall sit to consider the legality of the names, initials and symbols and whether they are the same as or similar to those of other parties, coalitions or fronts.
2 - The decision provided for in the previous paragraph shall immediately be published in the form of a public notice, which the President shall have affixed to the door of the Court.
3 - Within a time limit of twenty-four hours counting from the affixation of the public notice, the agents of any list that any coalition or party has put forward in any constituency may appeal the decision to the Plenary of the Constitutional Court.
4 - Sitting in plenary, the Constitutional Court shall decide the appeals referred to in the previous paragraph within a time limit of forty-eight hours.