constitutes the Constitution and the Charter”16. Through this procedure, the Constitutional Court of the Respondent State is required to verify that the laws are consistent with human rights instruments17. 51. In the present case, the Applicant alleges human rights violations that derive from Law No. 2018-16 of 4 January 2018 on the status of the judiciary, Law No. 2018-02 of 2 July 2018 of the Supreme Council of the Judiciary, Law No. 2019-40 of 7 November 2019 amending the Constitution and Law No.2019-43 of 15 November 2019 on the Electoral Code. All of these laws were, at the behest of the President of the Republic pursuant to Article 121 of the Constitution, reviewed by the Constitutional Court a priori and were declared constitutional, respectively, by the Constitutional Court’s Decisions Nos. DCC 18-141 of 18 June 2018, DCC 18-142 of 18 June 2018, DCC 19504 of 6 November 2019 and DCC 19-525 of 14 November 2019. 52. In view of the foregoing, the Court considers that it would not be reasonable to direct the Applicant to submit to the Constitutional Court issues on which the same court has already ruled. 53. Accordingly, the Court finds that the Applicant exhausted local remedies in respect of the alleged violations in relation to the impugned legislation and that in this respect the Application meets the requirement of Rule 50(2)(e). vi. On the requirement to file the Application within a reasonable time 54. With regard to the requirement under Rule 50(2)(f) that the application should be filed within a reasonable time, the Court recalls that it has taken High Council of the Republic (HCR) of Benin sitting as Constitutional Court, Decision 3DC of 2 July 1991. 17 Sébastien Germain Marie Aikoué Ajavon v. Republic of Benin, ACtHPR, Application No. 062/2019, Judgment of 4 December 2020, §§ 102. 16 18