A past voting process. Photo/nation.co.keA High Court has extended the deadline for party nominations from Thursday, April 27, 2017 to Monday, May 1, 2017.This follows a petition by a non-governmental organisation.The lobby group, Angaza Empowerment Network filed the petition before Justice Weldon Korir who certified the application as urgent.In an affidavit, the organization’s director, George Miringu, said that while IEBC has the power to prescribe regulations and guidelines, it cannot override express provisions of an Act of Parliament.Miringu stated that according to the constitution, party nominations are to be conducted at least 90 days to the election, putting the date of the deadline at May 7, 2017. “The reduction of the statutory period granted to political parties to plan and conduct party nominations by a whopping ten days is a violation and limitation of the provision of Article 83 (3) of the Constitution that is neither reasonable nor justifiable,” he said

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