Commission. In fact, on the one hand, the Respondent State accepted it while
responding to the submissions of the Complainant covering the periods
stated above, and on the other hand, the violations are said to be continuing
at the time of this decision.
89. On the legal grounds, the Commission notes that on the merits, the
Complainant does not submit any argument to buttress the alleged violation
of Articles 4 and 6 of the Charter presented during the admissibility stage and
maintained in the merits. The Commission consequently recognizes that this
is a renunciation and decides to set aside the consideration relating to it. On
the other hand, the Complainant extends his claims to the violation of the
provisions of Article 15 of the Charter. On these points, the Commission
considers that the additional substantive submissions are admissible as long
as they are based on the same facts and do not call into question the issues
solved under admissibility, and that the author can prove them and the other
party can successfully challenge them. The identity or the connections
between the facts have been established above. Furthermore, the said
submissions have been substantiated and are not in dispute. Regarding the
consistency of the additional or new submissions to the issues resolved
during the admissibility stage, the Commission will examine it jointly with
the related requests.
90. On the said consistency, the Commission notes that in addition to the initial
requests, the Complainant requests for amendment of certain provisions of
the Ivorian Constitution of 2000 and the legislation on nationality and related
issues. It appears to the Commission that the said applications are arising
from the de facto and de jure submissions made during the admissibility
stage. Moreover, they were lodged within the set deadlines; they result from
the exchange of written submissions between the Parties, and the
Commission gave the Respondent State ample opportunity to respond to
them. Finally, the issue of submitting applications in the first instance before
the Commission does not arise as the Complainant was exempted from
exhaustion of local remedies. Consequently, the Commission accepts the said
submissions and requests and even deems them relevant to subsequent
stages regarding the consideration of the merits. Furthermore, having
received them before their update, the Commission admits the submissions
on the merits in their entirety and will carry out the consideration at the end
of the exchange of the submissions.
91. As a prelude to the actual analysis of the merits, the Commission notes that
the Complainant first of all concludes on the allegations of violation of rights
of equality guaranteed in Articles 2 and 3 of the Charter before pointing to
the lack of respect for human dignity and recognition of the legal status
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