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Marube Ombeta, Kamotho Njenga v. Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission
- Question Presented
- Whether the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC)’s decision to implement the two-thirds gender rule for the 2022 elections is unconstitutional. Whether the IEBC’s decision to reject the petitioner’s candidate nominations list for the National Assembly and the Senate was unconstitutional.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Gender
- Quotas
- Region
- Africa
- Country
- Kenya
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Jun 13, 2022
Judgment
Together for the Change Without Formalizing Candidacies
- Question Presented
- Whether the when there is a vacancy in the candidate list and a legal framework for alternating candidate gender on the ballot, the substitute must be of the same gender as the deceased.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Gender
- Region
- Americas
- Country
- Argentina
- Language of Decision
- Spanish
- Date of decision
- Nov 12, 2019
Judgment
Suryadharma Ali & M. Romahurmuziy v. General Election Commission
- Question Presented
- Did the General Election Commission (KPU) violate the Legislative Election Law by eliminating a political party’s proposed candidate list with total women candidates that did not meet 30 percent gender quota as stipulated by the law?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Gender
- Quotas
- Region
- Asia-Pacific
- Country
- Indonesia
- Language of Decision
- Indonesian
- Date of decision
- Jun 3, 2013
Judgment
Chee Siok Chin v. Attorney General
- Question Presented
- Whether the plaintiff’s application for Parliament was constitutionally denied. If not, whether the election results may be overturned for all members of Parliament.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Electoral Integrity
- Region
- Asia-Pacific
- Country
- Singapore
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Jun 22, 2006
Judgment
In Re Dispute Case No. 1 of 1999
- Question Presented
- Whether two rival groups within the same political party may utilize the same political symbol on the eve of elections.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Party Registration
- Region
- Asia-Pacific
- Country
- India
- Language of Decision
- Arabic
- English
- Date of decision
- Aug 7, 1999
Judgment
Decision 378/2020
- Question Presented
- Whether the Bistrita Năsăud Electoral Bureau (BECJ BN)’s decision to reject the registration of appellant electoral alliance USR-PLUS’s list of four candidates for the 2020 parliamentary elections was incorrect even though the appellant did not properly include the candidates’ genders, as is required by law for Chamber of Deputies and Senate elections.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Gender
- Region
- Europe and Eurasia
- Country
- Romania
- Language of Decision
- Romanian
- Date of decision
- Oct 26, 2020
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
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