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kobo
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 07 Nov 2013 : 23:29:35
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1. THE IEC PRESENTS ITS 2012 REPORT TO STAKE HOLDERS
Foroyaa Editorial: Published on Thursday, 07 November 2013
Foroyaa will not make any comment. It will wait and see what the future will tell. We will just highlight what the IEC says on electoral Reform.
In its introduction, the IEC indicates that the “report will highlight the serious need for reform of some of the lapses in the electoral laws, to bring it in accordance with the internationally accepted best practices. This is necessitated by the many problems encountered because of weak laws or absence of law governing certain aspects of the electoral process pertaining to areas such as:
1. Elector
2. Voter apathy based on the separated elections
3. The absence of screening applicants during voter registration.
The Report made the following recommendations:
1. To build the capacities of its staff at all levels in both short and long term training programmes so as to be able to meet up emerging challenges in their work.
2. To review the existence of all political parties
3. To be given the mandate to revise the electoral boundaries so as to make them evenly weighted and distributed
4. To engage concerned authorities to amend deficiency in the electoral laws
5. Formulate and implement a strategic plan that will usher in the next electoral cycle
6. Mobilise funds and construct its regional offices
We will review the issue of deregistration of parties that are deemed to be inactive. In our view, having too many parties is a non issue in the Gambia. The number of political parties could be counted on our finger tips. What is important to concentrate on are the grievances expressed in petitions from the opposition and reports of election monitors.
See tomorrow’s edition for a highlight of the report.
SOURCE: Foroyaa Editorial
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Edited by - kobo on 08 Nov 2013 08:51:42 |
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