CEDH · CASELAW;COMMUNICATEDCASES;ENG — 14 septembre 2020

.s800EAC49 { font-size:12pt } .s379BC09C { margin-top:36pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:right } .sBB9EE52A { font-family:Arial } .s10950C61 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:14.2pt; text-align:justify } .s523616E0 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:12pt; text-align:center; font-size:14pt } .s39E5096F { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:14pt; text-align:center } .s54AB6003 { margin-top:66pt; margin-bottom:14pt; text-align:center } .s29100277 { font-family:Arial; font-weight:bold } Communicated on 14 September 2020 Published on 5 October 2020   FIFTH SECTION Application no. 78181/12 Nataliya Petrivna SOLEYKO against Ukraine lodged on 30 November 2012 SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASE The applicant stood as a candidate from the “Batkivshchyna” opposition party in the parliamentary elections of 28 October 2012 in single-seat constituency no.   11. She arrived the second having lost the elections to a self-nominated candidate. Her application raises allegations of serious irregularities in the tabulation process (including tampering with a large number of ballots initially counted in her favour during their storage in the constituency election commission and a subsequent recount without due safeguards against abuse) which distorted the true opinion of voters and thus infringed her right to stand as a candidate in free elections. QUESTION TO THE PARTIES Has there been a breach of the applicant’s right under Article 3 of Protocol No. 1 to the Convention to free elections which ensure the free expression of the opinion of the people in the choice of legislature?