An ordinary election for six judges of the International Criminal Court was held during the resumption of the 7th session of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court in New York on 19 and 20 January 2009. [1]
The election was to replace six judges who had been elected for a six-year term during the initial election in 2003.
The judges elected at this election were to take office on 11 March 2009, and to remain in office until 10 March 2018.[ citation needed ]
The election was governed by the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. Its article 36(8)(a) states that "[t]he States Parties shall, in the selection of judges, take into account the need, within the membership of the Court, for:
Furthermore, article 36(3)(b) and 36(5) provide for two lists:
Each candidate must belong to exactly one list.
Further rules of election were adopted by a resolution of the Assembly of States Parties in 2004. [2]
Following these rules, the nomination period of judges for the 2009 election lasted from 21 July to 13 October 2008 and was extended thrice until 24 November 2008 due to the lack of candidates from some groups for which minimum voting requirements were in place. The following persons were nominated: [3]
Name | Nationality | List A or B | Region | Gender |
Victoire Désirée Adétoro Agbanrin-Elisha | Benin | List A | African States | Female |
Joyce Aluoch | Kenya | List A | African States | Female |
Phani Dascalopoulou-Livada | Greece | List B | Western European and Other States | Female |
Christopher John Robert Dugard | South Africa | List B | African States | Male |
Chile Eboe-Osuji | Nigeria | List A | African States | Male |
María del Carmen González Cabal | Ecuador | List B | Latin American and Caribbean States | Female |
Gberdao Gustave Kam | Burkina Faso | List A | African States | Male |
Sanji Mmasenono Monageng | Botswana | List B | African States | Female |
Aminatta Lois Runeni N'Gum | Gambia | List B | African States | Female |
Vonimbolana Rasoazanany | Madagascar | List A | African States | Female |
Fumiko Saiga | Japan | List B | Asian States | Female |
Mohamed Shahabuddeen | Guyana | List B | Latin American and Caribbean States | Male |
Angélique Sita-Akele Muila | Democratic Republic of the Congo | List B | African States | Female |
El Hadji Malick Sow | Senegal | List A | African States | Male |
Cuno Tarfusser | Italy | List A | Western European and Other States | Male |
Wilhelmina Thomassen | Netherlands | List A | Western European and Other States | Female |
Rosolu John Bankole Thompson | Sierra Leone | List A | African States | Male |
Christine van den Wyngaert | Belgium | List A | Western European and Other States | Female |
Dragomir Vokuje | Bosnia and Herzegovina | List A | Eastern European States | Male |
The candidatures of Fernando Enrique Arboleda Ripoll of Colombia and of Lombe Chibesakunda of Zambia were withdrawn.
The candidature of Onesimus Mutungi of Kenya was replaced by the candidature of Joyce Aluoch.
Chile Eboe-Osuji of Nigeria was originally listed for list B. [4]
Minimum voting requirements governed part of the election. This was to ensure that article 36(8)(a) cited above is fulfilled. For this election, the following minimum voting requirements existed; they were to be adjusted once the election was underway.
Regarding the List A or B requirement, there was a minimum voting requirement (not to be waived at any time) of one judge from List A and one judge from List B. [5]
Regarding the regional criteria, there was a voting requirement for one judge from the Asian States and one judge from the Latin American and Caribbean States.
Regarding the gender criteria, there was no minimum voting requirement.
The regional and gender criteria could have been (and were) adjusted even before the election depending on the number of candidates. Paragraph 20(b) of the ASP resolution that governed the elections states that if there are less than double the number of candidates required for each region, the minimum voting requirement shall be a (rounded-up) half of the number of candidates; except when there is only one candidate which results in no voting requirement. Furthermore, if the number of candidates of one gender is less than ten, then the minimum voting requirement shall not exceed a certain number depending on the number of candidates.
The regional and gender criteria could have been dropped either if they were not (jointly) possible any more, or if after four ballots not all seats were filled.
The voting requirements were as follows:
Criterion | Voting requirement ex ante | Candidates as of now | Adjusted voting requirement | Adjusted requirement equals ex ante? |
Lists A or B | ||||
List A | 1 | 11 | 1 | Yes |
List B | 1 | 8 | 1 | Yes |
Regional criteria | ||||
African states | 0 | 11 | 0 | Yes |
Asian states | 1 | 1 | 0 | No |
Eastern European states | 0 | 1 | 0 | Yes |
Latin American and Caribbean States | 1 | 2 | 1 | Yes |
Western European and other States | 0 | 4 | 0 | Yes |
Gender criteria | ||||
Female | 0 | 11 | 0 | Yes |
Male | 0 | 8 | 0 | Yes |
The first two ballots took place on 19 January 2009. All other ballots took place on 20 January 2009.[ citation needed ]
Name | Nationality | List A or B | Region | Gender | 1st round | 2nd round | 3rd round | 4th round | 5th round | 6th round | 7th round | 8th round | 9th round |
Number of States Parties voting | 108 | 108 | 108 | 107 | 108 | 105 | 108 | 108 | 100 | ||||
Two-thirds majority | 72 | 72 | 72 | 72 | 72 | 72 | 72 | 72 | 67 | ||||
Mohamed Shahabuddeen | Guyana | List B | Latin American and Caribbean States | Male | 79 | elected | |||||||
Fumiko Saiga | Japan | List B | Asian States | Female | 72 | elected | |||||||
Cuno Tarfusser | Italy | List A | Western European and Other States | Male | 69 | 68 | 74 | elected | |||||
Sanji Mmasenono Monageng | Botswana | List B | African States | Female | 41 | 50 | 64 | 75 | elected | ||||
Christine van den Wyngaert | Belgium | List A | Western European and Other States | Female | 58 | 58 | 61 | 67 | 73 | elected | |||
Joyce Aluoch | Kenya | List A | African States | Female | 30 | 32 | 39 | 36 | 38 | 48 | 55 | 62 | 100 |
Wilhelmina Thomassen | Netherlands | List A | Western European and Other States | Female | 59 | 62 | 62 | 60 | 65 | 56 | 53 | 46 | withdrawn |
Phani Dascalopoulou-Livada | Greece | List B | Western European and Other States | Female | 48 | 43 | 31 | 28 | 14 | withdrawn | |||
Christopher John Robert Dugard | South Africa | List B | African States | Male | 30 | 27 | 25 | 20 | 14 | withdrawn | |||
María del Carmen González Cabal | Ecuador | List B | Latin American and Caribbean States | Female | 31 | 18 | 18 | 14 | withdrawn | ||||
Chile Eboe-Osuji | Nigeria | List A | African States | Male | 24 | 16 | 12 | withdrawn | |||||
Vonimbolana Rasoazanany | Madagascar | List A | African States | Female | 10 | 6 | 12 | withdrawn | |||||
Gberdao Gustave Kam | Burkina Faso | List A | African States | Male | 14 | 9 | withdrawn | ||||||
Angélique Sita-Akele Muila | Democratic Republic of the Congo | List B | African States | Female | 11 | 4 | withdrawn | ||||||
El Hadji Malick Sow | Senegal | List A | African States | Male | 10 | 4 | withdrawn | ||||||
Dragomir Vokuje | Bosnia and Herzegovina | List A | Eastern European States | Male | 9 | 4 | withdrawn | ||||||
Aminatta Lois Runeni N'Gum | Gambia | List B | African States | Female | 5 | 3 | withdrawn | ||||||
Rosolu John Bankole Thompson | Sierra Leone | List A | African States | Male | 9 | 2 | withdrawn | ||||||
Victoire Désirée Adétoro Agbanrin-Elisha | Benin | List A | African States | Female | 4 | withdrawn | |||||||
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