The deadline for submitting a complaint

(1) The general period for submitting complaints during the electoral period shall be 3 days, which shall be calculated from the day following the day when the action was committed, inaction was identified or the decision was adopted.

(2) In the cases provided for in this Code or other normative acts, complaints may not be submitted later than on Elections Day or on another determined or ascertainable date (circumstance).

(3) In the event of divergence between the rules of this Code and other normative acts, the provisions of this Code shall be applied in the part related to the deadlines for submitting complaints during the electoral period.

(4) Complaints referred to the facts that fall under Article 91 (1) lit. d) shall be submitted to the corresponding electoral body, within 3 days of the identification of offences, including after the Elections Day, but no later than the mandates are being validated.

(5) The complaints on of the elections coverage by media service providers shall be submitted to the Audiovisual Council within 3 days after the identification of infringements or broadcasting the audiovisual programme by which the complainant’s rights have been violated.

(6) The request for granting the right to reply and to challenge the refusal to offer the right to reply shall be submitted within the periods laid down in Chapter XII.

(7) Requests for cancellation the registration, accreditation or confirmation of electoral subjects shall be submitted to the competent electoral body no later than 5 days before the Elections Day. Requests submitted after that deadline shall be considered simultaneously with tabulation and confirmation of the elections results.

(8) The submission of actions under administrative litigation, as well as the exercise of appeals against the Courts acts, shall be carried out within the period established in paragraph (1).

(9) Complaints registered with the electoral bodies in accordance with Article 91 (9) may be submitted within 3 days from the Elections Day.

(10) Requests for the recount of votes shall be submitted within 3 days after public presentation of the preliminary voting results. The Central Electoral Commission or, where appropriate, the Constitutional Court shall order the votes recounting if the presented offences are likely to influence the election results and, subsequently, to influence the allocation of mandates. Shall be considered justified the requests for votes recounting, where a difference of up to 10 % is established between the valid votes casted for electoral competitors/between votes casted during the referendum, as well as when the entered data or corrections made in the votes counting minutes bring into question their compliance and truthfulness.

(11) Submission of complaints shall not suspend the enforcement of acts issued by the electoral bodies or other competent authorities, if administrative acts in electoral field do not provide otherwise or the authority or, where appropriate, the Court has not ordered the suspension of the execution of the disputed acts, under the provisions of Administrative Code.