14.Two days after the adoption of the Law by the National Assembly, Mr. Kramo KOUASSI, acting on behalf of a group of 29 parliamentarians of the National Assembly, on 30 May 2014, seized the Constitutional Council of Céte d'Ivoire with a prayer to declare four (4) provisions of the aforesaid law (Articles 5, 15, 16 and 17) unconstitutional. According to him, the provisions in question violate the right to equality before the law enshrined in the Ivorian Constitution in its Article 2 which provides that “A/l human beings are born free and equal before the law’ and Article 33(1) which provides that “the suffrage shall be universal, free, equal and secret’. 15.Mr. Kramo KOUASSI alleged that the presence within the IEC Central Commission of a personal representative of the President of the Republic and a personal representative of the President of the National Assembly constitutes a breach of the principle of equality of candidates given the fact that, according to him, the first can stand as a candidate to succeed himself, and the latter also fulfils the eligibility requirements set forth by the electoral law. 16.He maintained charge further that the representation of Territorial Administration, in the IEC, of the Minister in the Minister in charge of Economy and Finance, the High Judicial Council, the region Prefect, the Department Prefect and the Sub-Prefect is superfluous in the sense that the law governing the IEC in its Article assistance support in 37, provides terms is required that the of administrative, latter shall financial for the proper functioning be accorded Government and technical staff, of its services; whose that the said representation is not only worthless but is also unfair in as much as it creates, in favour of the President of the Republic, an unequal treatment on account of the over-representation of the latter within the IEC. —p, Gi b SAD 4 C 22> nn ®