satisfies the requirements of the said judgment, given that the reform law was
enacted in strict compliance with the international instruments which the Court
ordered the Respondent State to comply with.
251. The Respondent State also notes that to execute the Court’s judgement,
requested
September
an
interpretation of the judgment which was
2017.
The
Respondent
State then opted
only delivered
it first
on 28
for a consensus-based
solution to change the impugned law of the Court’s judgment of 18 November
2016. It claims that the organisation of such an inclusive political dialogue with
different political parties and
CSOs
to establish
an electoral
body
that meets
relevant international standards inevitably took time.
252. The Respondent State therefore argues that there is ample justification for its
inability to submit a report on the execution of the judgment within one year of its
notification of the decision and that such inability cannot constitute any violation
whatsoever of its international commitments.
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253. Article 30 of the Protocol stipulates that: “The States
parties to the present
Protocol undertake to comply with the judgment in any case to which they are
parties within the time stipulated by the Court and to guarantee its execution.”
254. The Court recalls that in its judgment in APDH v Céte d'Ivoire (merits), it ordered
the Respondent State to:
amend Law No 2014-335 of 18 June 2014 on the Independent Electoral Commission
to make it compliant with the aforementioned instruments to which it is a Party; and
submit to it a report on the implementation of this decision within a reasonable time
which, in any case, should not exceed one year from the date of publication of this
Judgment;?5
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