Competent court, procedure and time limits

1 - Appeals shall be lodged before the Constitutional Court, within a time limit of twenty-four hours counting from the affixation of the public notice referred to in Article 112.
2 - In the case of appeals regarding constituencies in the autonomous regions, the appeal may be lodged before the Constitutional Court, and the grounds provided to it, by telegraphic means or telex, without prejudice to the subsequent dispatch of all the evidence referred to in paragraph (3) of the previous Article.
3 - The President of the Constitutional Court shall immediately cause the agents of the lists that are competing in the constituency in question to be notified that, should they wish to do so, they, the candidates and the political parties must respond within a time limit of twenty-four hours.
4 - The Constitutional Court sitting in plenary shall take the definitive decision on the appeal within the forty-eight hours following the end of the time limit provided for in the previous paragraph, and shall immediately communicate its decision to the National Electoral Commission.