Requirement to issue reasoned decision

ElectionCode Bulgaria 2011. State Gazette No. 9 of 28 of January, 2011

Article264 […] (4) A judgment of the Constitutional Court establishingillegitimacy of the elections of National Representatives or of the election ofa National Representative or, respectively, of a Member of the EuropeanParliament for the Republic of Bulgaria, shall be transmitted to the NationalAssembly, the Central Election Commission and to the persons concerned. […]

Source: http://www.venice.coe.int/webforms/documents/?pdf=CDL-REF(2011)008-e

Constitutional Court Act of the Republic ofBulgaria Promulgated State Gazette No. 67/16.06.1991 Supplemented, SG No. 25/16.03.2001,effective 1.09.2000, amended and supplemented, SG No. 45/30.04.2002, SG No.114/30.12.2003, effective 1.01.2004

Article14. (1) The Constitutional Court shall rule through decisions, resolutionsand orders.

(2) The Court shall rule on the merits of a disputewith a decision.

(3) Decisions shall be published in the StateGazette within 15 days of their adoption and shall enter into force 3 daysafter publication.

(4) Decisions on disputes concerning the legalityof the election of the President, the Vice President or a member of theNational Assembly, on establishing ineligibility for election orincompatibility of a member of the National Assembly, as well as on theinability to discharge his duties and incompatibility of a Constitutional Courtjustice, shall enter into force from the date of ruling.

(5) The Court Acts are final.