Ex-president Green had no legal right to form new government

Applicant is strongly convinced that Green’s so called “government in exile” is not legitimate and can be proclaimed in no way as Aprophe’s legal government. We believe that from the exact moment of Green's attempt to usurp power by postponing the legal elections, all his actions must be considered as illegal. Since afterwards his activities were aimed exclusively at the illegal retention of this power. Green in fact made it impossible for anyone else to be nominated as a candidate in presidential election by postponing it and not appointing the concrete date of election. It is obvious that normal election campaign just may not be held in the atmosphere created with the help of Green's emergency powers. Therefore, Green's actions aimed at the usurpation of power violated electoral rights of the Aprophe citizens. And this, in turn, contravenes the language of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights which states that every citizen is entitled to vote to be elected[19]. Hence on a country scale this attempt to retain the power resulted in massive human rights violations.

It is important to mention that in the international practice there were precedents in which some countries refused to recognize governments-in-exile which were guilty of massive human rights violations. Despite the reason of the government-in-exile establishment United Kingdom and Australia refused to recognize Pol Pot Government[20]. Following this logic we suppose that Green's government which is liable for the gross human rights violations may not be recognized as a rightful government of Aprophe. To sum up, Green’s government in Rantania can not be called Aprophe’s legal government due to the fact that the person formed it lost his right to represent Aprophians.

Green’s government in Rantania has no authority