[President Uhuru Kenyatta and his Deputy William Ruto. The leaders are set to convene a meeting to debate on electoral issues.] (Photo/thestar.co.ke)President Uhuru Kenyatta’s Jubilee Party has continued to push for a review of certain electoral laws with a view of changing them.
The head of state is set to convene a Party Parliamentary Group (PG) meeting Tuesday morning, with amendments to the electoral laws and the Supreme Court thought to be the main topics.
This, according to Jubilee leaders, was occasioned by the nullification of the presidential elections in August, and the party is moving to seal such loopholes before the country goes to the polls on October 26.
Another contentious issue that the party wants addressed is the ‘Complimentary system’ as identified by the Elections Laws Amendment Act, 2016.
The Jubilee team feels the ‘ambiguity’ in the law led to the nullification of the August polls, and their lawyers have been working towards opening it up for better understanding.
On Sunday, the party’s leaders led by Senator Kipchumba Murkomen and Parliament Majority leader Aden Duale said they will be moving to look into the issue.
“Obviously the voting system is manual and thus there should be no ambiguity on what the complementary system is; it should be manual. What we want to look at is how to facilitate that manual system and how for instance will results be manually transmitted to the national tallying centre,” Murkomen said in Kericho on Sunday.
Duale said their legal team was working on the amendments, which will be discussed in this morning’s meeting.