49 the political party, member of the alliance, they choose and, accordingly, the chosen party shall be the one that heads the said alliance.”74 124(36) On July 5, 2000, the representative of the PIM/YATAMA/PPC alliance submitted a document to the Supreme Electoral Council in response to its communication of June 24, 2000 (supra para. 124(35)), indicating that “the name of the alliance of regional political parties [was] PIM and the political party that [would] head the alliance [was] the Indigenous Multiethnic Party (PIM).” Also, he advised that YATAMA had decided unilaterally to withdraw from the alliance, “therefore, [it was] constituted by the Indigenous Multiethnic Party (PIM) and the Coastal People Party (PPC).”75 124(37) On July 11, 2000, the legal representative of YATAMA in the RAAS informed the President of the Supreme Electoral Council that, “the YATAMA party in the South Atlantic Autonomous Region withdrew on June 13, 2000, from a party alliance formed to participate in the municipal elections [because] after the alliance had been created, it encountered problems.” Consequently, he requested the Supreme Electoral Council to “issue instructions to whosoever it may concern to notify the other two parties that YATAMA w[ould] participate alone” in the elections of November 5, 2000.76 124(38) Although communications had been presented to the Supreme Electoral Council on July 5 and 11, 2000, on July 14, 2000, the representatives of the PPC and YATAMA presented a further communication in which they advised the President of the Council, in response to his communication of June 24, 2000 (supra para. 124(35)), that “the name of the alliance of regional political parties [was] PPC and the political party that w[ould] head the alliance [was] the Coastal People Party (PPC). In addition, these representatives advised that the Indigenous Multiethnic Party (PIM) had unilaterally decided to withdraw from the alliance; therefore, the alliance was composed of the Coastal People Party (PPC) and the Yapti Tasbah Masraka Nanih Aslatakanka (YATAMA) party.” They also indicated that “[these were] the latest decisions taken by the alliance and, if there were any inconsistencies with previous communications, this communication prevailed over the others.”77 On July 17, 2000, the legal representative of PIM informed the President of the Supreme Electoral Council that “owing to disagreements with YATAMA and PPC, [this] organization ha[d] decided to participate in the municipal elections of November 5, 2000, alone.”78 74 Cf. Electoral Act No. 331 of January 24, 2000 (appendixes to the brief with preliminary objections, answering the application and with comments on the brief with requests and arguments, appendix D, file of preliminary objections, merits and reparations, tome II). 75 Cf. letter of July 5, 2000, from the national legal representative of the PIM Alliance to the President of the Supreme Electoral Council (file of preliminary objections, merits and reparations, tome III, folio 948); and public instrument providing clarification to the Supreme Electoral Council dated July 4, 2000 (file of preliminary objections, merits and reparations, tome III, folio 952). 76 Cf. letter of July 11, 2000, from the legal representative of YATAMA in the RAAS to the President of the Supreme Electoral Council (file of preliminary objections, merits and reparations, tome III, folio 936); and letter of July 17, 2000, from the legal representative of PIM to the President of the Supreme Electoral Council (file of preliminary objections, merits and reparations, tome III, folio 947). 77 Cf. letter of July 14, 2000, from the legal representatives of YATAMA and the PPC to the President of the Supreme Electoral Council (file of preliminary objections, merits and reparations, tome III, folios 938 and 939); and attestation issued on May 3, 2005, by the Director General for Political Parties of the Supreme Electoral Council (file of preliminary objections, merits and reparations, tome V, folio 1735). 78 Cf. letter of July 17, 2000, from the legal representative of PIM to the President of the Supreme Electoral Council (file of preliminary objections, merits and reparations, tome III, folio 947).