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Article 167
 

Challenges and appeals in bad faith


Anyone who in bad faith lodges a challenge, appeal, protest or counter-protest, or who challenges decisions of electoral organs by means of an appeal for which there are manifestly no grounds, shall be punished by a fine of between five hundred and ten thousand escudos.