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institutional action.”69 The paper examines a variety of countries, including Argentina, Spain, and Kenya, to describe how courts have handled litigation regarding the co

Republic of Moldova, Romania, Russian Federation, San Marino, Serbia, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom. 21 Convention for the Protection of Human

For example, courts in Spain, France and Germany have considered challenges to the constitutionality of gender quotas in their respective countries. In Spain, the Constitutional Court

and Herzegovina, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Moldova, Portugal, Serbia, Spain, and the United Kingdom). 483 See generally GUARDE, supra note 1,

of voter registration in Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom. 55. With the exception of Portugal and the United

is no “democratic society” (see, among many other authorities, the Castells v. Spain judgment of 23 April 1992, Series A no. 236, p. 22, § 42, and

Latvia (Department of Administrative Affairs of the Senate of the Supreme Court), Spain (Administrative Appeals Division of the Supreme Court) and the United Kingdom (Election

allegedly committed by them (see, among many other authorities, García Ruiz v. Spain [GC], no. 30544/96, § 28, ECHR 1999-I). At the same time, the principle

Lithuania and Poland) and six (Austria, Estonia, Germany, Latvia, the Netherlands and Spain) allow it in certain circumstances, to varying extents. Two States – Bulgaria

Opinion, My Vote project in six countries – Ireland, Italy, Malta, Hungary, Spain and Denmark – to enable adults with Down syndrome to become better engaged

choice of the legislature (Asensio Serqueda v. Spain, Commission decision, 1994; Federación nacionalista Canaria v. Spain (dec.), 2001; Brito Da Silva Guerra and Sousa

142 Spain and the United Kingdom have, among others, been criticized for prolonged and excessive use of emergency measures. In the case of Spain,

Estonia, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Spain, Sweden and Turkey have opted for one or other variant of proportional

permitted in several established democracies in western Europe, e.g. Germany, Ireland, Spain, Switzerland ... It was also used, for example, in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Day can be complex, especially if the health crisis is still evolving. In Spain, local elections were originally “suspended” in two regions, Galicia and Basque

SOUTH AFRICA: POUR L'AFRIQUE DU SUP: 3a lOatayio Atypassy: POR SUDAFRICA: FOR SPAIN: POUR L'ESPAGNE: 3& POR ESPANA: FOR THE SUDAN: POUR LE SOUDAN: 3» Cygu:

Doc. CCPR/C/81/D/1015/2001 (2004), parra. 9.2; Communication No. 961/2000, Everett v. Spain, para. 6.4. 19 Human Rights Committee on the International Covenant on Civil

Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Slovenia, Spain and the United Kingdom. 53 John Barnes, The right to an effective remedy:

of manual recount of votes in some districts of the state of Florida Spain 2003 Constitutional Court Declared certain political parties illegal due to possible