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Political parties continue discussion on electoral reforms |11 April 2017

 

 

 Yesterday’s meeting

 

Representatives of seven registered political parties as well as representatives of two local election observer groups  ̶  Citizens Democracy Watch Seychelles (CDWS) and Association for Rights Information & Democracy (Arid)  ̶  yesterday met members of the Electoral Commission (EC) to discuss issues related to elections as well as follow up on the Recommendations for Electoral Reform 2013.

The discussion forum took place at the National Cultural Centre.

The Political Party Liaison Committee, an initiative of the EC, comprises two representatives of each political party nominated by their respective parties.

The committee was set up early last month after which it held its first preparatory meeting during which  the political parties agreed to review the existing recommendations for reform and proposed suggestions and updates to be discussed in a series of meeting the first of which took place yesterday.

The main issue which dominated discussions during yesterday’s meeting was how to put in place a credible voters’ register including a voter census, updating the register, discussing the right modalities to use when considering Seychellois citizens living abroad among other related matters.   

 

 

 

 

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