ACDEG; nor with its obligation to ensure that the electoral body has the confidence of all the political actors, as prescribed by Article 3 of the ECOWAS Democracy Protocol. Accordingly, the Court found a violation of these provisions. 259. However, the Court notes that the remaining manifest imbalance of the Chairpersons of the Local electoral commissions relates to the implementation of the law and not to the content of the law. 260. The Court further notes that the absence of an appropriate mechanism to appoint members of the electoral body from civil society and political parties, particularly opposition parties, does not necessarily require an amendment of the impugned law. Such a mechanism could also be established through other measures. 261. The Court recalls its earlier jurisprudence in the matter of APDH v Céte d'Ivoire (interpretation), where it held that it is not the Court’s responsibility to decide how to make the law governing the electoral body compliant with the relevant human rights instruments, that is the responsibility of the Respondent State. Instead, the Court can only interpret the relevant human rights instruments and consider whether the law on the electoral body is in violation with those instruments or not. In the instant demonstrated standards case, the Court finds that the impugned provided by the that the Applicants law on relevant the electoral human rights have body not sufficiently fails to meet instruments to which the the Respondent State is a Party. 262. Regarding the obligation to execute the judgment within the stipulated time, the Court notes that the procedure to interpret the Court’s earlier judgment may help explain the initial delay in executing the said judgment. And while the Respondent State could have launched the consensus based legislative process to reform the law governing the electoral body earlier, the Court finds the Respondent State’s justification of the delay acceptable. 263. Accordingly, the Court holds that the Respondent State has not violated its obligation to execute the judgment of the Court. 57

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