8. The attempted military coup d'etat of 19 September 2002 which after its failure
transformed into a military-political rebellion did not make it possible to see the
new IEC at work.
9. In the ensuing political negotiations 1 aimed at resolving the crisis, Parliament,
on 14 December 2004, adopted Law No. 2004-642 amending the above
mentioned Law No. 2001-634 of 9 October 2001 .
10. This IEC was composed of the representatives of the political parties as well
as those of the armed movements, members of the rebellion.
11 . Notwithstanding the advent of the said Law, it was only after the conclusion of
the Pretoria Agreement2 and the signing of Presidential Decisions Nos. 200506/PR of 15 July 2005 and 2005-11/PR of 29 August 2005 that it became
possible to establish the Central Commission of the IEC in its current
configuration.
12. This IEC was also temporary because Article 53 of the Presidential decision
2005-06, above mentioned, provided that the mandate of members of the said
IEC was supposed to expire at the end of the general elections of 2010.
13.1t is therefore pursuant to the above provision that the Government adopted
and got the National Assembly to vote on 28 May 2014, that is, slightly over
one year before the general elections of 2015, the aforementioned Law No.
2014-335 impugned by the Applicant in the instant case.
1
These negotiations which resulted in the Agreement known as Linas-Marcoussis Agreement or Kleber Agreement
took place in a meeting held from 15 to 26 January 2003 at Linas-Marcoussis, France, wit h t he aim to put an end to
the civil war which had been raging since 2002.
2
The Agreement was signed on 6 April 2005.
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