The ANEC of Senegal has the power to take measures which are immediately binding, measures of injunction, rectification, sanitization, and substitution to a defaulting authority. Political parties, candidates or electors can bring cases before it. Its court has therefore a wide range of action. ANEC can itself bring matters before competent courts for penal sanction wherever it discovers irregularities. The proclamation of election results is out of the purview of the Senegalese ANEC. At the departmental level, there is a committee for the censuring of votes. The committee is mainly composed of professional judges. It is this committee which declares the provisional results of the consultation and which transmits its report to the Constitutional Court. The latter may receive all litigations within 48 hours of sending these results. It decides on the basis of these and declares the final results, against which of course there is no appeal. It needs to be pointed out that if ANEC cannot in the real sense of the word invalidate the results, it however has all the liberty to draw the attention of the constitutional council to its observations. The latter proclaims the final results on irregularities which can compromise the sincerity of the election. 2.2.2 Electoral commission with important prerogatives (Central Referee Committee) Apart from the Senegalese electoral commission, almost all the electoral commissions have important prerogatives encompassing the entire electoral process. Thus there are specific prerogatives which are common to all of them. On the list of general prerogatives, the electoral commissions of 60