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Paragraph 47
 

The current legal framework provides that “decisions, actions, or inaction relating to the election process may be contested by filing a complaint to a court or to an election commission” and that a decision, action, or inaction of the CEC “shall be contested exclusively by filing a lawsuit to a court”. Such an appeal may be lodged by electoral subjects including voters. However, it is not clear what the possibilities of complaints and appeals would be in case the decision on the impossibility of holding an election or referendum was made by the NSDC and put in effect by the President of Ukraine, as foreseen in the draft law. This should be clarified, as should the relationship between possible appeals against the NSDC decision/presidential decree and against other relevant CEC decisions, in particular those on the election results.