Requirement to hold a hearing
Czechia
Article 86
Any political party, movement or coalition orindependent candidate whose candidate list or registration application has beenrejected, whose candidate has been deleted from its candidate list or whosecandidate list or registration application has been registered may appealagainst such decision at a court of justice in compliance with special legalregulations13) [reffers to Article 200m] within 2 days afterreceiving it. The same provision applies to any deleted independent candidate.
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Article 88
(1) The proceedings specified in Article 86 shallbe carried out by a regional court of justicecompetent for the territory of the relevant regional authority ordesignated local authority in the seat of election district. […]
Article 200m
(1) If any election body competent to issue a finaldecision in compliance with special legal regulations34d) [refersto this particular Act 274/1995 on elections to the Parliament of the CzechRepublic]
a) reject any candidate list for the elections tothe Chamber of Deputies, the political party, movement or coalition presentingsuch candidate list shall be entitled to ask a court of justice to issue aresolution ordering its registration,
b) delete any candidate from any candidate list forthe elections to the Chamber of Deputies, the political party, movement orcoalition presenting such candidate list shall be entitled to ask a court ofjustice to issue a resolution ordering the candidate’s inclusion in thecandidate list,
c) reject any application for registration of acandidate for the elections to the senate, the subject presenting suchapplication shall be entitled to ask a court of justice to issue a resolutionordering the candidate’s registration.
(2) The parties concerned are the subjectpresenting the aforementioned request and the relevant election body.
(3) The competent court of justice shall issue a resolution withoutproceedings within three days.
(4) The court’s resolution cannot be challenged.
Act of Law No. 247/1995 Coll. of September 27th,1995, on elections to the Parliament of the Czech Republic and on change andamendment of other selected acts of law, amendmended by 212/1996 Coll.,243/1999 Coll., 204/2000 Coll., 64/2001 Coll., 491/2001 Coll., 204/2000 Coll. (part), 37/2002 Coll., 171/2002 Coll., 230/2002 Coll. (part), 230/2002Coll., 62/2003 Coll., 418/2004 Coll., 323/2006 Coll., 480/2006 Coll
