20 Official Gazette – Issue No. 8 bis (a) May 26, 2013 article (162) of the constitution; fall - based on the ruling of this court - within "Laws" with objective meaning thereof. Hence, the said decrees must be published in the Official Gazette in application of article (223) of the same constitution, this shall not cancel what is included in the presented text stipulating the publication of such decrees in two widely-circulated dailies; since such publication is not considered an alternative for publication in the Official Gazette as stipulated by the constitution. Therefore, since the aforementioned text omitted the obligation to publish in the Official Gazette, it shall be in violation of articles (162) and (223) of the constitution. 4- Paragraph 3 of article (13) of the draft law allowed the competent governor to impose a criminal penalty represented in ordering the removal of the posters and all the other campaigning means used in violation of the provisions of the rules stated in article (13) of the draft law; at the expense of the person who contravened the rules. Hence, such text has infringed the principle of power separation and stipulated the intervention of one of the executive authority bodies in the works of the judicial authority which lessens the independence thereof and wasted the bases of justice in managing the matters relevant to the citizens' rights and freedoms. Accordingly, the text referred thereto is in violation of articles (6), (55), (168) and (228) of the constitution. Sixth: article (16) of the draft law stipulated that "the President of the Republic may, in exceptional circumstances, shorten the time limit stipulated in articles 7, 10 and 15 of the present law". Whereas articles (55), (200), (208) and (288) of the constitution stipulate that the constitution legislator has vested the law with regulating the exercise of the rights of election and candidacy, tasked the NEC solely with managing the electoral process from A to Z by result announcement, provided that HEC undertakes full supervision of the first legislative elections following the enforcement of the constitution, and ensured the independence of the independent bodies. Furthermore, article 132 of the constitution stipulates that "The President of the Republic shall exercise his powers in the manner stated in the constitution" as he is the president of the state and the head of the executive authority. This indicates that the task of managing the electoral process is entitled, as a general basis, to HEC – as a transitional provision – without the intervention of the President of the republic, as the head of the legislative power, to achieve election's integrity and impartiality which the constitution obliged all the state's bodies to ensure. Since article (16) of the draft law allows the intervention of the President of the Republic in managing the electoral process, by shortening the aforementioned dates, which is among the matters relevant to such management. Thus, the present text has violated the principle of the election's integrity and impartiality and lessened the independence of each of the NEC and HEC in the electoral process management. Accordingly, the aforementioned text violates articles (55), (132), (200), (208) and (228) of the constitution. Seventh: Last paragraph of article (19) of the draft law stipulated that "If a candidate’s position becomes vacant in the list…, if the outcome of the elections results in an incomplete party list winning a number of seats exceeding the number of the remaining seats therein, the required number shall be completed through a byelection using party lists, in accordance with paragraph 5 of article (3) hereof".