Articles 6.7 and 6.10 both provide that the CEC has authority to impose, when deciding any complaint or appeal, the following penalty: “de-certification of a political party, coalition, list of independent candidates or independent candidate(s)”. These articles also grant the CEC authority to decree the “removal of a candidate from a candidates list when it is determined that the candidate was responsible for the violations”. None of the amendments addresses signature support for candidates, although this issue has been raised previously.
