Estonian Supreme Court receives 16 complaints re parlt elections

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A total of 16 complaints were submitted to the Estonian Supreme Court after the March 1 general elections.

According to chief of the Supreme Court's communications department Merje Talvik the court has so far made a decision regarding one complaint and the decision was a negative one. «The hearing of other complaints is at present in progress,» Talvik told BNS.

A total of 17 complaints were submitted to the Estonian National Election Committee after parliamentary elections, most of which were not considered due to not having the characteristics of a complaint. The complaints can be divided into three categories: the ones concerning voting rights of prisoners, the ones regarding the legitimacy of electronic voting, and issues concerning holding elections.

By now all complaints have received answers. Of the complaints 12 were not considered due to not having the characteristics of a complaint, four were not satisfied, and on one occasion the committee requested the City of Tallinn to recount the votes of two politicians from the Pro Patria and Res Publica Union, Viktoria Ladonskaja and Sven Sester, after which Ladonskaja received one vote more than Sester and therefore got a seat in the parliament.

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