By Own Correspondent: In the build-up to the coming presidential, parliamentary and local government elections, which are due next year through 2013, one of The Point’s political correspondents went out and about to elicit comments from notable political functionaries from the ruling Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction (APRC) and the opposition People’s Democratic Organization for Independence and Socialism (PDOIS) on their party’s plans and preparations. While Halifa Sallah, Secretary General of PDOIS, claims that his party is more organised, systematic and determined this time around and thus expects an electoral outcome in 2011 that is different from that of... Continue Reading
HARARE, 22 October 2010 (IRIN) – A call by President Robert Mugabe to hold national elections in 2011 and end any possibility of extending the government of national unity (GNU) has been greeted with concern by NGOs, fearing a surge in political violence. “We want to get to elections and get into a situation where ZANU-PF can rule the country. We do not want to pass June [2011] without elections. We want acceleration of the pace [to ensure that the polls are held],” Mugabe, who has been in power since independence from Britain in 1980, told a ZANU-PF women’s league... Continue Reading
By Own Correspondent – A group of 42 European Union Short Term Observers (STOs) will arrive in Tanzania next Monday, 25 October 2010, to join 22 Long Term Observers (LTOs) already deployed to cover all regions of the country. The STOs will stay in Dar es Salaam for two days before leaving to the field and receive a series of briefings on various aspects of the electoral process. Due to the information from Eurpean Union Press Officer which signed by Francesca Boggeri said, The STOs, just like their long term observer colleagues, will maintain contacts with local electoral officials, candidates,... Continue Reading
By Nangayi Guyson –Kampala – AFP- The opposition leader Dr Kiiza Besigye, the flag bearer of the Inter-Party Cooperation alliance who arrived in a convoy of seven vehicles at the EC at around 7am was on Thursday denied entry by guards manning the entrance. Besigye and a group of supporters approached the commission’s office in central Kampala early Thursday, aiming to meet election officials about preparations for the country’s upcoming vote. “The reason we came here was to remind the individuals running the electoral commission that they have a non-negotiable constitutional duty to organise free and fair elections,” Ssemujju Ibrahim... Continue Reading
By Own Correspondent: Nominations were held yesterday at the office of the Independent Electoral Commission in Basse Mansajang for the forthcoming Sare Ngai Ward By-election in Wuli West Constituency in the Upper River Region. Two candidates were nominated by the ruling APRC and opposition National Alliance for Democracy and Development parties. Speaking to reporters shortly after his nomination, Alkali Kebbeh, the APRC nominated candidate, expressed optimism that come October 28th he will emerge victorious. According to him, he is the right candidate that the people of Sare Ngai Ward need, since he is committed to ensuring that all the people... Continue Reading
