50 124(39) On July 15, 2000, the date on which the period established in the electoral calendar for presenting the list of candidates for the elections of November 5, 2000, expired (supra para. 124(30)), the PPC and YATAMA alliance (called the PPC Alliance), through its legal representative, “presented candidates for mayors, deputy mayors and councilors”79 to the Regional Electoral Council in Bluefields.80 124(40) On July 17, 2000, the national legal representative of the PPC/YATAMA Alliance addressed a letter to the Director for Political Parties of the Supreme Electoral Council, in which, “[i]n compliance with the provisions of the Electoral Act[, …] he forward[ed] the list of candidates for mayors, deputy mayors and municipal councilors, with their respective alternates, for the municipalities of Bluefields, Corn Island, [K]ukra Hill, Laguna de Perlas, La Desembocadura del Río Grande, Tortuguero and La Cruz de Río Grande.”81 124(41) The Supreme Electoral Council did not refer to the constitution of the PPC/YATAMA alliance until its resolution of August 15, 2000 (infra para. 124(51)).82 Electoral Act No. 331 does not contain any provision that would prevent any political party that had presented itself as part of an alliance from taking part in the elections for which this alliance was established, when another party, which formed part of the alliance, was not authorized to participate.83 124(42) On April 20, 2005, the Director General for Political Parties of the Supreme Electoral Council issued an attestation in which he indicated that “according to the records kept by the General Directorate of the registration of candidates for the elections for mayors, deputy mayors and members of the municipal councils in the November 2000 elections, the Yapti Tasba Masraka Nanih Asla Takanka (YATAMA) party did not submit candidates to the Supreme Electoral Council, or to the Regional Electoral Council of the South Atlantic Autonomous Region (RAAS).”84 124(43) On May 3, 2005, the Director General for Political Parties of the Supreme Electoral Council certified “that folios 2 to 119 of Tome 1 of the book of candidates corresponding to 2000, contain the details of the candidates for mayors and councilors of the South Atlantic Autonomous Region [RAAS] submitted to the South Atlantic Regional Electoral Council in Bluefields (an organization that is not legally authorized to 79 Cf. resolution issued by the Supreme Electoral Council on August 15, 2000 (file of appendixes to the application, tome II, appendix 15(2), folios 599). 80 Cf. letter of July 17, 2000, from the legal representative of the Alliance of the PPC and YATAMA (called PPC Alliance) to the President of the Supreme Electoral Council (file of preliminary objections, merits and reparations, tome III, folio 937). 81 Cf. letter of July 17, 2000, from the legal representative of the Alliance of the PPC and YATAMA (called PPC Alliance) to the President of the Supreme Electoral Council (file of preliminary objections, merits and reparations, tome III, folio 937). 82 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). 83 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). 84 Cf. certification of April 20, 2005, issued by the Director General for Political Parties of the Supreme Electoral Council (file of preliminary objections, merits and reparations, tome V, folio 1701).