Nature of the Application 3. The original Application being Consolidated Applications Nos. 009 of 2011 Centre Tanganyika Law Society and The Legal and Human v The United Republic of Tanzania and 011 of 2011 Rights Reverend Christopher R. Mtikila v The United Republic of Tanzania was in respect of the Eighth Republic Constitutional of Tanzania, which Amendment received Act passed Presidential by assent the United in the same year. This Act required that any candidate for Presidential, Parliamentary and Local Government elections had to be a member of, and be sponsored by, a political party. In the said Consolidated Applications, the Applicant herein was the 2™ Applicant. 4. The brief background of that application was that: i. In 1993, the Applicant filed a Constitutional Court, being challenging Miscellaneous Civil Cause amendment to Articles 39, the case in the High No.5 67 of and 1993 77 of the Constitution of the United Republic of Tanzania and to Section 39 of the amended Local Authorities (Elections) Act 1979, as later by the Local Authorities (Elections) Act No.7 of 2002 through the Eighth Constitutional Amendment Act, claiming that it conflicted with the Constitution and was therefore void. Rw : qe @ 2 34 null and a ah Detain xt