What remedies are available in the first instance?

Law nr. 14/79 of May,16^th. 1979

(With the amendments made by the following legislative acts:

Declarations of August 17^th. 1979 and October 10^th.1979; Decree-Law nr. 400/82 of September 23^rd. 1982; Law nr. 14-A/85of July 10^th. 1985; Decree-Law nr 55/88 of February 26^th.1988; Laws nr. 5/89 of March 17^th. 1989, 18/90 of July 24^th.1990, 31/91 of July 20^th. 1991, 55/91 of August 10^th.1991, 72/93 of November 30^th. 1993, 10/95 of April 7^th.1995, 35/95 of August 18^th. 1995; and Organic Laws nr. 1/99 of June22^nd. 1999, 2/2001 of August 25^th. 2001, 3/2010 ofDecember 15^th. 2010, and 1/2011 of November 30^th. 2011.)

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Section I: Partialcounting

Article 102: Votescounting

5.. If the complaint or protest were not attended by the polling station,the voting ballots under complaints or protest are separated, annotated onthe reverse, with an indication of the qualification given by the stationand of the complaint or protest grounds, and rubricated by the president and bythe list delegate if he/she wishes to do so.

6. The unmet complaints or protests do not prevent the counting of thevoting ballot for partial counting purposes.

5- Se a reclama??o ou proteston?o forem atendidos pela mesa, os boletins de voto reclamados ou protestadoss?o separados, anotados no verso, com a indica??o da qualifica??o dada pelamesa e do objecto da reclama??o ou do protesto e rubricados pelo presidente e,se o desejar, pelo delegado da lista.

6- A reclama??o ou protesto n?oatendidos n?o impedem a contagem do boletim de voto para efeitos de apuramentoparcial.

Section II: Generalcounting

Article 110:Preliminary operation

1.. At the beginning of its operations, the counting assembly shalldecide about the ballots about which there have been complaints or protests, correcting,if necessary, the counting of the corresponding polling station.

1- No in?cio dos seus trabalhos, a assembleia deapuramento decide sobre os boletins de voto em rela??o aos quais tenha havidoreclama??o ou protesto, corrigindo, se for caso disso, o apuramento darespectiva assembleia de voto.

Article 116 (see sources) stipulates the possibility of declaring anelection null in the case of proven illegalities, but without mentioning thatthose should be derived from any sort of complaint.