Date of the judgment: 03.11.2022.
Official publication: 07.11.2022.
On Compliance of Para 2 of Section 6 of the Law on the Election of Local Government Councils with the First Sentence of Article 101(2) of the Constitution of the Republic of Latvia
The Constitutional Court decided:
1. To declare Section 6, Clause 2 of the Law on the Election of Local Government Councils as not conforming to the first sentence of Article 101, Paragraph two of the Constitution of the Republic of Latvia.
2. In respect of person J, to declare Section 6, Clause 2 of the Law on the Election of Local Government Councils of the Republic of Latvia as not conforming to the first sentence of Article 101, Paragraph two of the Constitution of the Republic of Latvia and void from the moment when the infringement of the fundamental rights of the person concerned occurred.
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