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Sabha Primary Court Case #8
- Question Presented
- Should elections be annulled when multiple irregularities occurred related to polling date announcements, voters lists, infrastructure, coercion, and vote-buying?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Disputing Results
- Electoral Integrity
- Electoral Violence and Intimidation
- Region
- Middle East and North Africa
- Country
- Libya
- Language of Decision
- Arabic
- Date of decision
- Apr 27, 2019
Judgment
Decision No. 1 (1995)
- Question Presented
- Whether a law that permits the Prime Minister to exercise his discretionary power to transfer or declare a vacancy for the position of the President of the Supreme Court of char’i jaafarite contradicts the principle of “separation of powers” and should be repealed.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Civil Procedure
- Region
- Middle East and North Africa
- Country
- Lebanon
- Language of Decision
- French
- Date of decision
- Nov 2, 1995
Judgment
City for All List, et. al v. Palestinian Central Election Commission, et. al
- Question Presented
- Whether the error in registration on the voter list of one candidate from an independent candidate list should result in rejecting the application of all the candidates on the list, and thus the entire list, from running for election.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Eligibility
- Candidate Registration
- Region
- Middle East and North Africa
- Country
- Palestine
- Language of Decision
- Arabic
- Date of decision
- Apr 23, 2017
Judgment
Albayda Judgment – Ali Tarhouni Case II (2016)
- Question Presented
- Whether the chairman of the CDA lost his Libyan citizenship and eligibility for office by obtaining American citizenship and marrying a foreigner.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Region
- Middle East and North Africa
- Country
- Libya
- Language of Decision
- Arabic
- Date of decision
- Nov 28, 2016
Judgment
Albayda Judgment - Emergency Procedural Ruling
- Question Presented
- Whether Libyan Constitution Drafting Assembly (“CDA”) members’ procedural change on vote quorum, from requiring 2/3 majority plus one of the entire CDA to 2/3 majority plus one of present members, violated the law.
- Region
- Middle East and North Africa
- Country
- Libya
- Language of Decision
- Arabic
- Date of decision
- Dec 19, 2016
Judgment
Shura Council Speaker request for constitutional review of the draft law regulating the exercise of political rights.
- Question Presented
- Whether the draft law adheres to the current constitutional political protections.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Accessibility
- Vote Verification and Transmission
- Region
- Middle East and North Africa
- Country
- Egypt
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- May 26, 2013
Judgment
Shura Council Speaker's request for constitutional review of the drafted law.
- Question Presented
- Whether the proposed provisions are constitutional.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Electoral Maps and Districting
- Vote Form Irregularities
- Region
- Middle East and North Africa
- Country
- Egypt
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Feb 13, 2013
Judgment
Mohamed v. Chairman of High Elections Commission
- Question Presented
- Whether the elections of the Shura Council, Upper House, exceed the bodies authority and whether and actions taken by the body are consequently unconstitutional.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Electoral Integrity
- Judicial Independence
- Region
- Middle East and North Africa
- Country
- Egypt
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Jun 3, 2013
Judgment
Abdel-Razeq v. Ahmed
- Question Presented
- Where the constituency representation scheme violates the reasonableness standard.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Electoral Integrity
- Electoral Maps and Districting
- Region
- Middle East and North Africa
- Country
- Egypt
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Mar 15, 2015
Judgment
Mustafa v. Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces
- Question Presented
- Whether closed party lists and a first past the post system discriminates against independent candidates?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Electoral Integrity
- Voting Systems (Winner-take-all, proportional, etc.)
- Region
- Middle East and North Africa
- Country
- Egypt
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Jun 14, 2012
Judgment
In re Sixty-two deputies of the Group Popular Parliamentary of Congress
- Question Presented
- Whether Spain's gender quotas violate the Spanish Constitution (art. 3.7, 20.4-7)
- Legal Issue(s)
- Gender
- Quotas
- Region
- Europe and Eurasia
- Country
- Spain
- Language of Decision
- Spanish
- Date of decision
- Feb 13, 2009
Judgment
59 Members of Parliament of Ukraine on the constitutionality of the provisions of Art.22.2 of the Parliamentary Elections Law of Ukraine concerning the equal allocation of foreign polling stations to all single-member constituencies
- Legal Issue(s)
- Electoral Maps and Districting
- EMB Operation
- Region
- Europe and Eurasia
- Country
- Ukraine
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Apr 4, 2012
Judgment
63 Members of Parliament of Ukraine on the constitutionality of the provisions of Art. 43 of the Parliamentary Elections Law of Ukraine concerning the election deposit
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Region
- Europe and Eurasia
- Country
- Ukraine
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Jan 31, 2012
Judgment
Sinnott v. Minister for the Environment
- Question Presented
- Whether the plaintiff's inability to cast a secret ballot based on his visual impairment violated his right to vote.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Elections as a Fundamental Right
- Region
- Europe and Eurasia
- Country
- Ireland
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Mar 30, 2017
Judgment
Décision n° 2015 465 QPC du 24 avril 2015 Conseil constitutionnel
- Legal Issue(s)
- Gender
- Region
- Europe and Eurasia
- Country
- France
- Language of Decision
- French
- Date of decision
- Apr 24, 2015
Judgment
Décision n° 2001 445 DC du 19 juin 2001 Conseil constitutionnel
- Question Presented
- Whether section 33 of the French Institutional Act violates the Constitution.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Gender
- Region
- Europe and Eurasia
- Country
- France
- Language of Decision
- English
- French
- Date of decision
- Jun 19, 2001
Judgment
Décision n° 98 407 DC du 14 janvier 1999 Conseil constitutionnel
- Question Presented
- Whether the Electoral Code provision requiring parity between male and female candidates violates the French Constitution?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Gender
- Region
- Europe and Eurasia
- Country
- France
- Language of Decision
- English
- French
- Date of decision
- Jan 14, 1999
Judgment
Kosovo Police v. Mustafa
- Question Presented
- Whether a candidate violated the Law of General Elections prohibition on taking advantage of a public employee during a campaign period when the candidate used photo of the Kosovo Police Chief?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Campaign Finance
- Candidate Registration
- Region
- Europe and Eurasia
- Country
- Kosovo
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- May 10, 2019
Judgment
Balkan Investigative Reporting Network BIRN Internews and Kosova v. Serbian List
- Question Presented
- Whether the Serbian List's election spot violated the Election Code such that it incited hatred or violence.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Electoral Violence and Intimidation
- Social Media
- Region
- Europe and Eurasia
- Country
- Kosovo
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Sep 27, 2019
Judgment
LVV Political Entity v. Central Election Commission
- Question Presented
- Whether the ballots declared invalid by the CRC were valid and should have been counted for in election totals?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Vote Form Irregularities
- Region
- Europe and Eurasia
- Country
- Kosovo
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Oct 19, 2019
Judgment
BIRN v. Democratic League of Kosovo
- Question Presented
- Whether the claimant met its evidentiary burden for determining that the respondent violated election law.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Civil Procedure
- Social Media
- Region
- Europe and Eurasia
- Country
- Kosovo
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Oct 6, 2019
Judgment
Nisma-Akr-PD v. Polling Station 211B
- Question Presented
- Whether there is sufficient evidence to bar the election officials from participating in elections or election administration after they lost ballots.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Electoral Integrity
- EMB Operation
- Vote Form Irregularities
- Region
- Europe and Eurasia
- Country
- Kosovo
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Oct 10, 2019
Judgment
PDK v. Central Election Commission
- Question Presented
- Whether the technical omission from the Kosovo ballots warrants a recount prior to the final election results.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Civil Procedure
- Vote Form Irregularities
- Region
- Europe and Eurasia
- Country
- Kosovo
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Oct 18, 2019
Judgment
Self Determination Movement v. CEP
- Question Presented
- Whether the plaintiff sufficiently alleged that the irregularities in voting warranted renumbering the ballots.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Civil Procedure
- Vote Form Irregularities
- Vote Verification and Transmission
- Region
- Europe and Eurasia
- Country
- Kosovo
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Oct 10, 2019
Judgment
Party of Kosovo Serbs v. Serbian List
- Legal Issue(s)
- Civil Procedure
- Technology
- Region
- Europe and Eurasia
- Country
- Kosovo
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Oct 10, 2019
Judgment
Pacolli v. Central Election Commission
- Question Presented
- Whether the court may hear the merits of a complaint on the voting counts are most polling stations.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Civil Procedure
- Vote Form Irregularities
- Region
- Europe and Eurasia
- Country
- Kosovo
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Oct 10, 2019
Judgment
Levizja Vetevendosje v. Central Election Commission
- Question Presented
- Whether the ballots postmarked well before the election, but not received by the CRC, must be counted as valid ballots.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Vote Verification and Transmission
- Region
- Europe and Eurasia
- Country
- Kosovo
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Oct 28, 2019
Judgment
Popular Parliamentary Group of Congress of Deputies (Review of Law)
- Question Presented
- Whether the ballot parity is sufficiently remedied in the voter pool. Whether such quotas are constitutional.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Gender
- Quotas
- Region
- Europe and Eurasia
- Country
- Spain
- Language of Decision
- Spanish
- Date of decision
- Feb 29, 2008
Judgment
Presidential Petition on Local Government Council Election Act Amendment
- Question Presented
- Is the Local Government Council Election Act Amendment unconstitutional?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Electronic Voting
- Region
- Europe and Eurasia
- Country
- Estonia
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Sep 1, 2005
Judgment
Maurin v. France
- Question Presented
- Did the candidate violate campaign finance laws when he filed his campaign accounts late and failed to file certain expenses and financial notebooks?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Campaign Finance
- Region
- Europe and Eurasia
- Country
- France
- Language of Decision
- French
- Date of decision
- Feb 1, 2019
Judgment