477 election protests and 696 protests against the validity of the referendum have already been registered at the Supreme Court, the Polish Press Agency noted on Friday afternoon. The deadline for filing protests has already passed, but the documents are still arriving at the court by mail.
As Maciej Brzózka from the Supreme Court press team told PAP, all protests registered in this court come from voters. He added that none of the protests submitted had yet been considered.
The deadline for filing protests expired on October 25. Most likely, the court will receive more letters from voters in the mail in the coming days. If the deadline for submitting a protest is met, the date of the postmark counts.
Last Wednesday evening, the National Electoral Commission’s announcements about the results of the parliamentary elections, the voting results and the results of the national referendum were published in the Journal of Laws. Thus, the seven-day period for filing protests against the validity of the Sejm and Senate elections and for protests against the validity of the referendum began to run.
Resolution on the validity of the elections
After considering all election protests, the Supreme Court’s Chamber for Extraordinary Control and Public Affairs decides on the validity of the elections and the referendum. The Supreme Court will decide on the validity of the election in open court no later than 90 days after election day. In turn, a resolution on the validity of the referendum shall be issued by the Supreme Court no later than the 60th day after the announcement of the referendum result.
After the 2019 parliamentary elections, 279 election protests were filed in the Supreme Court. After investigating these protests, ten were found justified, but the irregularities found did not affect the election results. The accusations in 15 protests were unfounded. The Supreme Court dismissed the vast majority of protests without further action. Several cases were in turn resolved in a different way: for example, the procedure was stopped or a protest was filed because the formal shortcomings had not been corrected. The Supreme Court passed a resolution on the validity of the elections on December 23, 2019.
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Source: wPolityce