63 VIII CONSIDERATIONS CONCERNING THE DETERMINATION OF ALLEGED VICTIMS 125. Several problems have arisen concerning the determination of the alleged victims. Consequently, before examining the alleged violations, the Court will establish who it will consider the alleged victims to be. 126. The Commission indicated that the alleged violations of the Convention were committed “to the detriment of the candidates for the positions of mayors, deputy mayors and councilors presented by the regional political party […] ‘YATAMA’ for the municipal elections of November 5, 2000, in the North Atlantic Autonomous Region and the South Atlantic Autonomous Region.” It explained that, in the RAAS, the YATAMA party presented candidates in alliance with the Coastal People Party (PPC), an alliance that was called the PPC Alliance, and that, in the RAAN, the YATAMA party took part independently. 127. In principle, determination of the alleged victims would need to be supported by official documents presented to the Nicaraguan electoral authorities or issued by the latter, authenticating the name of the candidates proposed by YATAMA, independently or in alliance. 128. On several occasions during the proceeding before the Commission, the representatives of the alleged victims requested the Director for Political Parties of the Supreme Electoral Council, the Secretary of Proceedings, and the magistrates of this Council to provide them with copies of the lists of candidates presented by YATAMA in the Atlantic Autonomous Regions. The only official document that Nicaragua provided was an official receipt of July 18, 2000, for the “original documentation of municipal substitute candidates for mayor, deputy mayor and councilors of the municipalities of the North Atlantic received on July 15, 2000,” which the President of the RAAN Regional Electoral Council forwarded to the Director General for Political Parties of the Supreme Electoral Council. This document contains the names of the candidates that the Commission provided in the application. However, it does not give any information on the list of candidates presented in the RAAS and it does not provide information on all the candidates presented in the RAAN, because it is merely a list of substitute candidates. 129. In their briefs with requests and arguments, and with comments on the preliminary objections, the representatives requested the Court to require the State to present the official lists of candidates proposed by YATAMA in both the RAAN and the RAAS for the 2000 municipal elections, because they had made this request and had not obtained complete information from the State. 130. Since it was necessary to have the official lists of candidates presented by YATAMA and there were differences between the lists of alleged victims provided by the Commission and by the representatives, the Secretariat, on the instructions of the President and all the judges of the Court, requested the State’s cooperation in the presentation of these lists, in notes of May 12 and December 9, 2004, March 31, and objections, merits and reparations, tome V, appendixes to the final written arguments of the representatives of February 17, 2005, appendixes 4 and 5, folios 1647 to 1686).