Legal Timeline for the 2010 Presidential and Legislative Elections
The legal timeline:
Following the presidential decree issued on October 23, 2009 calling for presidential and legislative elections to be held on January 24, 2010, the CEC announces the legal timeline of electoral procedures, based on the Law-in-Decree No. 1 of 2007 for general elections.
| Electoral event |
Legal period (days) |
Date of implementation |
| Voter registration, exhibition and challenge |
5 |
10-14/11/2009 |
| Processing of applications and appeals |
5 |
15-19/11/2009 |
| Appealing the CEC decisions before the electoral court |
2 |
20-21/11/2009 |
| Adjudications of the appeals by the court |
5 |
21-25/11/2009 |
| Commencement of nomination |
12 |
30/11 - 11/12/2009 |
| Last date to withdraw nominations of parliamentary candidates |
1 |
9/12/2009 |
| Closing of nomination |
1 |
11/12/2009 |
| Processing of nomination applications |
5 |
11-15/12/2009 |
| Publishing of the preliminary list of candidates |
1 |
17/12/2009 |
| Receiving of objections to the candidates list |
3 |
17-19/12/2009 |
| Processing of objections to the candidates list |
3 |
20-22/12/2009 |
| Appealing the CEC decisions on the nominations before the electoral court |
3 |
23-25/12/2009 |
| Adjudication of the appeals submitted on the nominations by the court |
7 |
25-31/12/2009 |
| Last date to withdraw nominations for presidential candidates and lists |
1 |
1/1/2010 |
| Commencement of the accreditation of candidates’ and lists’ agents and representatives |
14 |
2-15/1/2010 |
| Publishing of the final register of electoral lists |
1 |
2/1/2010 |
| Commencement of electoral campaigning |
21 |
2-22/1/2010 |
| Early voting for security forces |
1 |
22/1/2010 |
| End of electoral campaigning |
1 |
23/1/2010 |
| Polling day |
1 |
24/1/2010 |
| Announcement of the preliminary election results and commencement of the final counting process |
2 |
25-26/1/2010 |
| Announcement of the final election results |
14 |
25/1 - 7/2/2010 |
| Publishing of the final election results |
1 |
7/2/2010 |
| Submission of appeals on the elections results to the electoral court |
2 |
8-9/2/2010 |
| Second round of elections if none of the presidential candidates obtains an absolute majority of votes |
15 |
8-22/2/2010 |
| Adjudication of appeals by the electoral court |
5 |
10-14/2/2010 |