54 parties submit nomination rules

  SHARE BOOKMARKPRINTRATING

Registrar of Political Parties Ms Lucy Ndung’u. Photo/FILE 

By DAVE OPIYO dopiyo@ke.nationmedia.com
Posted  Sunday, October 21  2012 at  23:30

IN SUMMARY

• Registrar warns that regulations will be void if they are not in line with the law

SHARE THIS STORY

All registered political parties have submitted their nomination rules to the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission.

Registrar of Political Parties Mrs Lucy Ndung’u said the parties beat the October 17 deadline required by the Elections Act to submit the rules.

The parties had risked being locked out of the General Election had they failed to meet the deadline.

Said Ms Ndung’u in a statement; “All the 54 fully registered political parties and two provisionally registered parties have complied by submitting their nomination rules to the IEBC.” (READ: Parties set tough rules for aspirants)

The guidelines will be used to supervise the nomination of candidates who will seek various elective seats in the General Election.

“Nomination rules are now available for public reading and can be found at the office of the Registrar of Political Parties upon the payment of Sh500 per party document,” she went on.

Mrs Ndung’u had on Wednesday said the deadline would not be extended citing the tight timetable the IEBC has set for the election.

She warned the parties that their nomination rules would be void if they were not in line with the Constitution and the Elections Act.

She also said that parties would be required to follow their rules during the primaries to be conducted from December 4 to January 17.

Orange Democratic Movement, The National Alliance, the United Democratic Forum, United Republican Party, Wiper Democratic Party, Narc-Kenya, New Ford-Kenya and Agano Party are some of the parties that sought to revise the set of rules they had submitted at the end of June after the election date was moved to March 4 next year.

The parties have now set tough rules, including disqualification, for candidates who buy votes during nominations.

The political outfits are also setting up appeals boards to avert possible fallouts after nominations as has been witnessed in the past.