iv. Ms Alesia A MBUYA, Assistant Director, Constitutional, Human Rights and Election Petitions, Principal State Attorney, Office of the Solicitor General; v. Daniel NYAKIHA, State Attorney, Office of the Solicitor General; vi. Vivian METHOD, State Attorney, Office of the Solicitor General; vii. Ms Caroline Kitana CHIPETA, Acting Director, Legal Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and East African Cooperation; and viii. Ms Blandina KASAGAMA, Legal Officer, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and East African Cooperation. after deliberation, renders this judgment: I. THE PARTIES 1. Bob Chacha Wangwe and the Legal and Human Rights Centre, (hereinafter jointly referred to as “the Applicants”) are, respectively, a Tanzanian national and a Non-Governmental Organisation (hereinafter referred to as “NGO”) registered in Tanzania that has observer status before the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (hereinafter referred to as “the Commission”).2 The Applicants bring this action challenging provisions of the National Elections Act of Tanzania. 2. The Application is filed against the United Republic of Tanzania (hereinafter referred to as “the Respondent State”), which became a Party to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (hereinafter referred to as “the Charter”) on 21 October 1986 and the Protocol on 10 February 2006. It further deposited, on 29 March 2010, the Declaration under Article 34(6) of the Protocol through which it accepted the jurisdiction of the Court to receive cases from individuals and NGOs. On 21 November 2019, the Respondent 2 The Legal and Human Rights Centre was granted observer status during the Commission’s 28th Session held between 28 October 2000 and 6 November 2000 in Cotonou, Benin – https://achpr.au.int/en/network/ngos. 2