during his hearing; that it is nevertheless obvious that the USB key
containing the documents attached in support of the Prosecutor's requisition
determined the findings of the special committee submitted to the plenary on
the occasion of the vote to lift the Applicant's parliamentary immunity; that
this is a substantial irregularity that undermined the work of the special
committee and compromised the vote on resolution No. 00001/2020/AN
concerning the lifting of the parliamentary immunity of Mr. KODJO Messan
Agbéyomé; that the possibility for a litigant to benefit from equality of arms
and the right to adversarial proceedings in any proceeding - judicial or
otherwise - is a fundamental requirement guaranteed and controlled by all
international quasi-judicial jurisdictional bodies; that, indeed, adversarial
proceedings cannot be realized if the accused or his representative does not
have the documents on which the Federal Attorney relies to request the
waiver of the Applicant's parliamentary immunity; that in the instant case, in
a correspondence dated March 11, 2020, addressed to the Speaker of the
National Assembly, the Applicant already denounced the hasty invitation
received the day before, on March 10, 2020, at 6:30 p.m., to appear before
the special committee for the waiver of parliamentary immunity, which did
not grant him any reasonable time to prepare well his defense; that under the
terms of the affidavit dated April 28, 2020, Mr. KPEEVEY Gaby-Gadzo, a
Member of Parliament in the Togolese National Assembly, who represented
the Applicant before the special committee as authorized by the Rules of
Procedure of the said Assembly, explains how, on March 11, 2020, when he
arrived before the special committee, his wish to enjoy the assistance of a
lawyer was denied him since the lawyer accompanying him was prohibited
from attending the hearing; even his proposal to allow him to consult his
lawyer, who would be in another room if necessary, was rejected by the
committee; that in support of the Applicant's request addressed to the
Togolese Speaker of the National Assembly, recalled at point 60 of this
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