The Supreme Court clarified a dispute over a name that occurred in Valga County. The name of an electoral alliance is usually protected from the moment of registration.
According to the law, an electoral alliance can submit documents for registration 60 to 45 days before the elections. Two electoral alliances with similar names cannot be registered.
On June 12, two people signed a contract to create "Electoral Alliance Our Valga". On August 25, they submitted documents to the Valga County Electoral Commission. The commission left them unregistered because the list "Our Valga Electoral Alliance" had submitted documents a day earlier.
The county electoral commission decided based on the order of document submission. The Supreme Court found that this was fair. The complainant was aware of this beforehand. Also, two months was not too short a time to organize an election campaign.
The Supreme Court emphasized that the law protects the right of long-established electoral alliances to their name. A name registered in previous elections can only be used if more than half of the members of the former alliance are in the new electoral alliance.
The members of the initially unregistered electoral alliance are now running under the name "Electoral Alliance For and In Favor of Our Valga".