54 South Atlantic Autonomous Region is inadmissible (supra para. 124(48)). In this regard, it considered “that YATAMA [was] a legally constituted party and in full use of the rights established in the Electoral Act and, as such, it could take part in the elections of November 2000, either in alliances or individually, provided it complie[d] with the Electoral Act and the terms of the electoral calendar.” It also indicated that “since [PPC] failed to provide the percentage of signatures referred to in Article 77(7), [...] the number of municipalities in which YATAMA present[ed] candidates is less than the 80% referred to in Article 82(2) in relation to Article 80 in fine of the Electoral Act[,] which establishe[d] that the parties or alliances of parties must register candidates for all the elections and positions referred to in Article 1 of [the said] law; and also that Article 89(1) of the Constitution establishes that ‘[t]he communities of the Atlantic Coast are an indissoluble part of the Nicaraguan people and, as such, enjoy the same rights and have the same obligations’”; (b) With regard to the participation of YATAMA in the North Atlantic Autonomous Region (RAAN), that “the candidates presented by the said Organization in the North Atlantic w[ould] not be registered because [...] they had not complied with the time limit established in the Electoral Act”. 124(52) On August 17, 2000, the Supreme Electoral Council notified the said resolution of August 15, 2000, to the legal representatives of YATAMA.99 124(53) On August 17, 2000, the President of the RAAN Regional Electoral Council addressed a communication to the President, Vice-President and a Magistrate of the Supreme Electoral Council, in which he requested “emphatically” a clarification with regard to YATAMA’s exclusion from the municipal elections and indicated that “it [was] urgent that a magistrate should come immediately to clarify this situation and avoid subsequent harm [or,] if this was not possible, [YATAMA] should be offered a meeting with the magistrates of the [Supreme Electoral Council].” The President of the Regional Electoral Council indicated that “if the regional political organization did not receive a clear and positive reply forthwith, it w[ould] not be responsible for any actions that m[ight] be taken in” the RAAN.100 124(54) On August 18, 2000, the legal representatives of YATAMA filed before the Supreme Electoral Council an appeal for review of the resolution of August 15, 2000, issued by this Council (supra para. 124(51)). In this appeal, the representatives stated that, in several communications, they had requested the Supreme Electoral Council to “register YATAMA for the elections in the South Atlantic Autonomous Region (RAAS) under its own name, presenting [its] own list of candidates to the regional delegate of the Supreme Electoral Council[, …] but these communications were never answered.” They also indicated that, in accordance with Article 81 of the Electoral Act, “those who did not comply with the requirements, who had an impediment or who were prohibited under the Constitution and the pertinent laws, could not be nominated for elected 99 Cf. resolution issued by the Supreme Electoral Council on August 15, 2000 (file of appendixes to the application, tome II, appendix 15(2), folio 599); and application for amparo filed by YATAMA’s legal representatives before the Civil Chamber of the Court of Appeal of the North Atlantic District, Puerto Cabezas (file of appendixes to the application, tome II, appendix 8(1), folio 529). 100 Cf. letter of August 17, 2000, from the President of the RAAN Regional Electoral Council to the President, Vice President and a magistrate of the Supreme Electoral Council (appendixes to the brief with preliminary objections, answering the application and with comments on the brief with requests and arguments, appendix A, file of preliminary objections, merits and reparations, tome II, folio 338).

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