National Election Office

V. Review of initiations

The National Election Committee shall validate or reject the signature collection form and the related question within 30 days. The decision of the National Election Committee is published in the Official Gazette (§117, Ve*.)

Anyone can submit an appeal to the Constitutional Court within 15 days from the publication in the Official Gazette of the relevant Parliamentary decision. (Article (1), § 130. Ve).

The Constitutional Court shall review the appeal ahead of agenda (Article (3), § 130. Ve) and the result of the review is published in the Official Gazette.

The Constitutional Court can confirm or declare void the decision of the National Election Committee and thus, it orders new proceedings. (Article (3), § 130. Ve). The decisions of the National Election Committee and the Constitutional Court can be as follows:

National Election Committee (NEC)	Constitutional Court	Outcome
Validates the signature collection form	Confirms decision of the NEC.	Signature collection can be started.
Validates the signature collection form	Declares void the decision of the NEC, and orders new proceedings.	NEC proceedings are started.
Rejects the validation of the signature collection form	Confirms decision of NEC	Procedure is finished.
Rejects the validation of the signature collection form	Declares void the NEC decision and orders new proceedings.	NEC proceedings are started.

* Ve – Választási eljárási törvény – Regulations of the election process

Last modify: 2009.04.15.