Parties and monitoring organizations participating in elections may be subject to specific conditions and requirements to appeal the summary protocol of the Central Election Commission (CEC), without which courts will not accept the lawsuit

Parties and monitoring organizations participating in elections may be subject to specific conditions and requirements to appeal the summary protocol of the Central Election Commission (CEC), without which courts will not accept the lawsuit into proceedings.

Within the framework of planned amendments to the Election Code prepared by "Georgian Dream" deputies, changes are also being made to the rules for appealing election results.

A new article is being added to the law in this direction, according to which appealing the CEC summary protocol will only be possible if the CEC summary protocol fails to state, or incompletely or erroneously states, the data reflected in the summary protocols of precinct election commissions that are to be included in the CEC summary protocol. Likewise, it will apply if the results of court decisions that have entered into legal force regarding violations of election legislation are not reflected, or are reflected incompletely or erroneously.

According to the bill, a lawsuit filed with the court in violation of these requirements will not be accepted into proceedings. Furthermore, if the lawsuit is accepted into proceedings, the court will only be authorized to deliberate on the specified circumstances and, if the fact of a relevant violation is established, instruct the CEC to correct the corresponding data in its summary protocol.

The amendments to the Election Code have already been initiated in Parliament.