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Article 103
 

Decision of an appellate authority If a decision or measure of an election authority has been unlawful and this unlawfulness has clearly affected the result of the election, a new election shall be held in the said electoral district or municipality, or in European Parliamentary elections, in the whole country, if the result of the election cannot be rectified. If the electoral district committee or the municipal central election committee has, while counting the result of the election or confirming the result of the election, acted unlawfully and this unlawfulness has affected the result of the election, the result of the election has to be rectified.