Members of Parliament have crafted a radical legislative proposal with the upshot of wresting the electoral commission’s sweeping mandate on boundaries review. Through a bill, lawmakers are seeking to control the process of reviewing the country’s electoral areas in what could whittle down the powers of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission. This could be a drastic attempt by MPs to influence the boundaries review exercise since the electoral agency is already required under the current law to collect views from interested parties, including politicians, before writing the final report. The boundaries review will affect the 290 geographical constituencies in the National Assembly and 1,450 county assembly wards. The forthcoming boundaries review would ignite political temperatures amid IEBC’s threat to scrap some constituencies which do not meet the threshold.

Source: The Star March 07, 2019 20:26 UTC