In Mugemangango v. Belgium, the European Court of Human Rights clarified its case law regarding the right to vote and stand for election. By holding that Belgium’s longstanding tradition of allowing parliamentary review of election disputes violates guarantees of fairness and impartiality, the Court made clear that it would not interpret Article 3 of Protocol No. 1 as providing an exception for so-called “old democracies.” In doing so, the Court sent a clear message to other member states with similar systems of parliamentary review that their procedures may not be in compliance with the Convention.

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Mugemangango 诉比利时：“旧民主国家”无例外

在Mugemangango 诉比利时案中，欧洲人权法院阐明了其关于投票权和被选举权的判例法。法院认为，比利时允许议会审查选举争端的长期传统违反了公平和公正的保证，因此法院明确表示，它不会将第 1 号议定书第 3 条解释为为所谓的“旧民主国家”提供例外。通过这样做，法院向其他具有类似议会审查制度的成员国发出了一个明确的信息，即它们的程序可能不符合公约。