Last instance body dealing with electoral disputes
Iraq
Article 8:
4) Decisions by the Board may be appealed only to the electoral judicialpanel.
5) Board decisions shall bepublished in the daily newspapers for a period of atleast three days both in Arabic and Kurdish. Appeals against such decisionsmust be submitted by the concerned political party entity within three days startingfrom the last day of the publication of the decision. Such appeals may besubmitted to the National office or any electoral office in the region andgovernorates.
6) The electoral judicial panel must decide on anappeal within ten days of its referral by the board of commissioners.
7) Decisions by the Electoral Judicial Panel arefinal and cannot be appealed in all cases.
8) Upon its formation, the judicial appeals panelshall establish appeal procedures before it against the decisions of the boardof commissioners without violating what is mentioned in this law. This shall beexempted from the applicable amended civil procedure law No.83 of 1969 andother procedural laws.
Source: Law of the independent high electoral commission,Law No. 18 of 2007
