IV – Legal Analysis by the Court The Court must first examine the main issues raised, and which are the subject – matter argued before it, in a logical manner, as it considers them. As form: a) On the objection drawn from Plaintiff/Applicant’s quality to act the lack of Following its Memorial in Defence filed on 25 January 2018, the Republic of Guinea – Bissau raised an objection as to inadmissibility of the initiating Application on the ground that Plaintiff/Applicant was never married to the late Head of State, hence she lacks quality to act before the Honourable Court, to the extent of seeking reparation. But, whereas the effectiveness of the ECOWAS Regional Human Right protection Mechanism places an obligation of a guarantee of effective appeal for every person that feels directly affected by the violation of his fundamental rights. The Court is of a strong opinion that in the instant case, the admissibility of the Application filed by Plaintiff/Applicant cannot be considered only on the existence or otherwise of a link of right between her and the defunct victim. The only important issue for Plaintiff/Applicant is the administration of the proof of shared feelings, which was materialized by being intimately close to late President Nino Vieira, and which constitutes the objective proof of that communal living or of feelings between the two parents. At this juncture, it important to emphasise that through a Reply filed on 25 September 2017, Mrs. Gomes de Pina claimed that she was effectively married to President Vieira in a customary marriage, and that from that union between the two of them, three children were born, namely Eden 7

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