Legal Framework
Our aim here is to analyze, from a comparative perspective, specific issues related to legal and administrative regulations which can be seen as fundamental for any election which aspires to be undertaken in a free and fair way.
We try to develop many different alternatives that can be taken into account to design or redesign the legal framework supporting an election. Such an effort is supported on providing broad and systematic information for those professionals involved in the undertaking of an election based on the alternatives they have at hand.
Our goal is to help any reader understand what a legal framework is. In order to do so, different electoral frameworks, different basic alternatives which can be used to undertake an election, different legal devices used to draft electoral regulations and the distinctive features of such regulations are confronted.
Bearing all this in mind, three basic questions are addressed in what follows:
- Which are the components that have to be taken into account to either define or reform the elections’ regulation?
- Which are the judicial components that have to be included in the legal framework?
- Which are the basic features distinguishing an electoral reform?
Legal framework
The important components of law are the procedure,regulatory body(s),executing/implementing agency(s)and legitimacy.Law should be clearly defined and reforms should be made so as to cover all aspects.
Judicial decisions are always taken to formulate the process.So
important components are to be included from time to time keeping in view the needs of time.
Determination of seats,delimitations of boundaries, eligibility of voters and contestants etc are the basic features of reforms.