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While in France any registered voter or candidate can request the constitutional council to annul the results in their respective constituency, in Austria or Bulgaria, for instance, only contesting political parties or candidates can challenge election results before courts, but not voters. In a few countries, there is no possibility for judicial review of decisions on complaints against the final election results by parliament (Belgium, Denmark, Netherlands) which is inconsistent with international good practices (even if the complaint and appeal system enjoys a high level of trust there). According to the constitution in Turkey, no appeal shall be made to any authority against the decisions of the Supreme Election Council. The Constitutional Court had rejected such appeals as falling outside its jurisdiction in the past (CDL-AD(2020)011, para 11).