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Ledezma Acosta v. Ausecha Ordóñez and Armando Guevara Bravo
- Question Presented
- Whether a candidate’s disqualification from running in an election should affect the eligibility of all the candidates on the political party’s candidate list, since as a result of the disqualification the entire list did not meet the gender quota minimum required by law.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Disputing Results
- Party Registration
- Quotas
- Country
- Colombia
- Language of Decision
- Spanish
- Date of decision
- Sep 17, 2020
- Date added
- Sep 13, 2022
Judgment
Núñez de Armas v. Magdaniel Hernández
- Question Presented
- Whether a candidate must resign from his administrative position twelve months from the date of his registration as a candidate or twelve months from the date of the election to be eligible to run as a candidate.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Country
- Colombia
- Language of Decision
- Spanish
- Date of decision
- Dec 16, 2020
- Date added
- Sep 13, 2022
Judgment
Ramos Rojas v. Sanabria Chacón
- Question Presented
- Whether a political party’s internal rules on candidacy criteria relating to nepotism may nullify an election of one of its registered candidates if he violated the party rules but otherwise met the eligibility criteria set up in the Constitution or statutes.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Country
- Colombia
- Language of Decision
- Spanish
- Date of decision
- Dec 3, 2020
- Date added
- Sep 13, 2022
Judgment
Zambrano Castro v. National Electoral Council
- Question Presented
- Whether the rejection of an applicant’s mayoral candidacy should be overturned because he initiated a lawsuit to revoke disciplinary sanctions against him, thereby potentially qualifying him for a “pending lawsuit” exception as outlined in Article 100, Paragraph 8 of the General Code of Procedure.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Civil Procedure
- Country
- Colombia
- Language of Decision
- Spanish
- Date of decision
- Oct 29, 2020
- Date added
- Sep 13, 2022
Judgment
Ortiz Daza v. Act Declaring the Election of Candelo Riascos
- Question Presented
- Whether a candidate is permitted to endorse a candidate from another party (“double militancy”) when he receives express permission or derogation from his own party to do so, despite the provision in law that prohibits this practice.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Disputing Results
- Country
- Colombia
- Language of Decision
- Spanish
- Date of decision
- Dec 10, 2020
- Date added
- Sep 13, 2022
Judgment
Medina Padilla v. Aguilar Hurtado
- Question Presented
- Whether an election should be annulled because the elected candidate received an endorsement from registered members of a political party, along with some of that party’s militants, other than the candidate’s registered party.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Disputing Results
- Party Registration
- Country
- Colombia
- Language of Decision
- Spanish
- Date of decision
- Aug 20, 2020
- Date added
- Sep 13, 2022
Judgment
Roeskan Effendi & Rohidin Mersyah v. General Election Commission of South Bengkulu
- Question Presented
- Did the General Election Commission (KPU) of South Bengkulu manipulate the official result “systematically, structurally, and massively” by conducting dishonest and unfair vote counting?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Disputing Results
- Country
- Indonesia
- Language of Decision
- Indonesian
- Date of decision
- Jan 8, 2009
- Date added
- Jul 15, 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.)
- Country
- Egypt
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Jun 14, 2012
- Date added
- Jul 6, 2020
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
- Country
- Egypt
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Jun 3, 2013
- Date added
- Jul 6, 2020
Judgment
New Nation Movement NPC and Others v President of the Republic of South Africa
- Question Presented
- Whether the requirement of political party membership for candidate eligibility is constitutional.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Country
- South Africa
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Jun 11, 2020
- Date added
- Jun 11, 2020
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
- Country
- France
- Language of Decision
- English
- French
- Date of decision
- Jan 14, 1999
- Date added
- Jul 25, 2019
Judgment
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