Bahraini legislator has set bounds to the electoral process with safeguards that ensure its successful completion in integrity and transparency, subjecting it to strict judicial oversight and giving every candidate in the constituency the right to challenge the results of the election held in his/her constituency, and entrusting the Court of Cassation, the apex of the judicial system in the State, with the jurisdiction to consider these appeals.” 7. Regarding the holder of the right to lodge an electoral appeal, the Court of Cassation affirmed that only the candidates have the right to challenge the validity of the election and it excluded the voters in the constituency from such. The Court ruled that, “The electorate (voters) may not appeal the results of the election as this right is restricted to the candidates in the constituency in which the validity of the election is contested.” This principle recurred in the Court’s rulings on Appeal No. (19) and Appeal No. (21) against the parliamentary elections of 2002 in the sessions dated 8 November 2002, and 18 November 2002, respectively. 8. In all cases, the Court of Cassation upheld on Appeal No. (16) against the parliamentary elections of 2002, dated 5 November 2002, that, “The results of the election shall not be challenged on grounds relating to including the name of the winning candidate in the voters’ schedule or in the candidates’ list in the constituency in which the candidate has won the membership of the Council of Representatives, as these are preelection procedures to be resolved by final decisions or judgments that have binding force in this regard.” 9. With regard to both the candidate and his agent, the Court of Cassation established that the agent must be one of the voters in the candidate’s 89