146. The principle of “equality” in law presupposes that the law protects everyone without discrimination"®. 147. Concerning discrimination, it is defined as a differentiation of persons or situations on the basis of one or several unlawful criterion/criteria’®. 148. In the same vein, the European Court of Human Rights declared in the Matter of Yumak and Sadak v. Turkey” that: “With regard to electoral systems, the Court’s task is to determine whether the effect of the rules governing parliamentary elections is to exclude some persons or groups of persons from participating in the political life of the country, and electoral system whether can the discrepancies be considered created by a particular arbitrary or abusive or whether the system tends to favour one political party or candidate by giving them an electoral advantage at the expense of others”. 149. The Court imbalanced has found that the composition in favour of the Government of the Ivorian electoral and that this imbalance body is affects the independence and impartiality of that body. 150. It is therefore another clear that in the event that the individual candidate belonging for any election, to his political President family of the presents Republic himself be it presidential or legislative, the impugned or as a law would place him in a much more advantageous situation in relation to the other candidates. *5 Dictionary of Human Rights under the direction of Joél Andriantsimbazovina, Héléne Gaudin, Jean-Pierre Maguénaud, Stéphane Rials and Frédéric Sudre, French University Press, 2008, page 284 *® Dictionary of International Public Law, under the direction of Jean SALMON, Bruylant, Brussels, 2001, page 344 *” application 1022/03, Judgment of 8 July 2008, paragraph 21 34 w he Afi @ ®B Ne a2, GE wP