Concerning the application for expedited procedure, the Republic of Senegal maintains that Mr. Karim Meissa Wade simply argues that since the electoral process had already begun, “any delay, very characteristic of the ordinary procedure of the Court, runs the risk of extinguishing the essence of his Application, and render his substantive request purposeless,” without demonstrating whether he was prevented in any way whatsoever from filing his application earlier than he did; the Republic of Senegal puts up the defence that the only urgency Mr. Karim Meissa Wade may be feeling, as hanging on him, is the one created by his own failings by deliberately choosing to ignore the opportunity open to him by the applicable Senegalese law to enable him put his name on the electoral register. The Republic of Senegal therefore requests that the application for expedited procedure be rejected as ill-founded and Karim Meissa Wade be asked to bear all the costs. At the hearing of 8 February 2019, the matter was heard under expedited proceedings. ANALYSIS OF THE COURT REGARDING JURISDICTION OF THE COURT The Republic of Senegal argues that prima facie, the Court has no jurisdiction over the matter. In the terms of the provisions of Article 9(4) of Supplementary Protocol A/SP.1/01/05 amending Protocol A/P.1/7/91 on the Community Court of Justice, the Court has jurisdiction to determine cases of violation of human rights that occur in any Member State. In compliance with these provisions, the Honourable Court has affirmed on numerous occasions that allegations of violation of human rights in an application suffice on their own for the purposes of upholding the jurisdiction of the Court without prejudging the veracity of the facts alleged; this was notably the decision made in Les Etablissements VAMO and Pascal Kuekia v. Republic of Benin (Judgment No. ECW/CCJ/JUD/12/15 of 20 April 2015), and El Hadj Mame Abdou Gaye v. Republic of Senegal (Judgment No. ECW/CCJ/JUD/01/12 of 26 January 2012). Translator: E. Nkansah 8