MPs hand party bosses a blank check to handpick MCAs as Bill returns to Senate
Proposals requiring nominees to be registered voters in the wards have been deleted.
Members of the National Assembly during a past sitting.
The National Assembly beat a hasty retreat to abandon a controversial proposal in the Elections (Amendment) Bill 2024, whose passage would have locked ‘outsiders’ out of the 770 County Assembly nominative seats in a win for party bosses seeking to consolidate power and promote loyalists.
Although the Bill, passed by the National Assembly, now heads back to the Senate, the originating House, for review, consideration and concurrence, the MPs’ move protects the absolute power of political parties to handpick nominees.
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