2. Regarding municipal affairs, Article No. (29) of Decree-Law No. (3) of 2002 on the System for Electing Members of Municipal Councils and its amendments bear the same substance as the previous provision on challenging elections in the Council of Representatives. 3. Pursuant to the jurisdiction of the Court of Cassation over elections, this 2Court has adopted during the past years, from 2002 to 2018, a set of relevant principles to serve as a guide to resort to and be guided by in every new electoral process. 4. The Court of Cassation has stated in several of its successive rulings regarding the integrity and validity of the elections that, “Integrity of the electoral process is the basis, which means that the elections cannot be annulled unless it is proven with certainty that the electoral process is invalid in a way that affects its results.” 5. This is one of the basic principles and foundations of the Court of Cassation, as it had made repeated references to it on more than one occasion, starting with its judgment passed on Appeal No. (2) against the municipal elections of 2002 in the session dated 10 June 2002; Appeal No. (13) and No. (102) against the parliamentary elections of 2011 in the session dated 3 October 2011; Appeal No. (104) challenging the parliamentary elections of 2011 in the October 10, 2011 session; Appeal No. (104) against the municipal elections in the session dated 21 December 2014; and Appeal No. (2) against the parliamentary elections in the session dated 20 December 2018. 6. Emphasizing the integrity of the electoral process, the Court of Cassation clarified in its ruling passed on Appeal No. (115) against the parliamentary elections of 2014, in the session dated 27 November 2014, that, “The 88

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