Prawo do wolnych wyborów w świetle orzecznictwa Europejskiego Trybunału Praw Człowieka
The Right to Free Elections in the Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights

Author(s): Dominika Szkółka
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Civil Law
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: European Convention on Human Rights; Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms; Protocol 1; suffrage; European Court of Human Rights; free elections
Summary/Abstract: The article concerns the right to free elections in the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights. It examines the meaning of the phrases used in the article 3 of Protocol 1 such as reasonable intervals, secret ballot, choice of the legislature, free expression of the opinion of people. Moreover, the situations in which the right can be restricted are pointed out. In the end, the author discusses whether the right may be considered and protected as a transnational rule.

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