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[Monitor] The Electoral Commission (EC) was justified to suspend election campaign meetings in 12 districts, court has ruled.
\t On Friday, internet and international calls were cut off across the West African nation in anticipation of the election results, according to locals and international observers in the capital, Conakry.
\t This was the third time that Conde matched-up against Diallo. Before the election, observers raised concerns that an electoral dispute could reignite ethnic tensions between Guinea's largest ethnic groups.
Supporters of Malawi’s new president Lazarus Chakwera gathered for a fireworks display in the capital Lilongwe, celebrating his victory in a keen presidential election re-run.
With loud cheers and applause they waved Malawi’s red, black and green flag in celebration. Chakwera won with 58.57 percent of the vote, the electoral commission said Saturday.
It was a dramatic reversal of fortune for incumbent, Peter Mutharika, whose victory in the May 2019 election was overturned by the Constitutional Court, citing widespread fraud.
Some 6.8 million voters in the southern African country had returned to the polls on Tuesday. And on Saturday, electoral commission announced that Chakwera has been duly elected as the president of Malawi.
Mutharika came second with over 1.7 million votes, while a thiurd candidate Peter Dominico Kuwani received 32,456.
Mutharika did not wish to comment on his defeat. But earlier on Saturday, he argued that the election re-run had been flawed, citing violence and intimidation against his party monitors.
In office since 2014, Mutharika had won 38.5 percent of the discredited vote in which Chakwera garnered a close 35.4 percent.
[Nation] The electoral commission has joined the anti-graft agency in warning impeached governors that they won't secure clearance to contest elections even as politicians fought the sanctions, rekindling how Parliament watered down integrity laws.
In some nations, there is a body or electoral commission that supervises elections, but that is not the situation in the United States. With each state having its own systems and laws for counting votes, vote-counting is still ongoing with people on the edge of their seats hoping to have a clear winner soon. Joe...
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The executive has moved its hand to a very unfamiliar and unexpected place to undermine Judiciary financial independence.
The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) said total of 609 133 South Africans have been registered to vote in the by-elections on “Super Wednesday”
BY VENERANDA LANGA ZIMBABWEAN legislators have claimed that they were facing a lot of bottlenecks when raising private members’ Bills before Parliament, hence the Executive ends up sponsoring laws that were not in tandem with the principles in the Constitution and the African Charter on Elections, Democracy and Governance (ACDEG). They raised the issue yesterday in Kariba during an ActionAid Zimbabwe-sponsored training on the African Union Charter ACDEG. The charter stipulate implementation of anti-corruption measures, transparency and accountability, free and fair elections and social, economic, environmental and political rights. ActionAid country director Joy Mabenge said MPs must be able to infuse ACDEG principles in Bills as well as ensuring that principles of social justice are incorporated into laws. His organisation has been popularising ACDEG for several years. Constitutional expert James Tsabora said there were opportunities for legislators during parliamentary portfolio committee meetings and debates on Bills in the House to check their principles against the Constitution and ACDEG. Tsabora encouraged MPs to bring private members’ Bills before Parliament rather than always wait for Executive-sponsored laws. Since independence, only two MPs have brought private members’ Bills before Parliament. One was a private member’s Bill suggesting amendments to the repealed Public Order and Security Act (POSA), which was sponsored by Innocent Gonese (Mutare Central MP), and the other was sponsored by former Gweru Urban MP Sesil Zvidzai to amend local government laws. Tsabora said some of the challenges faced by MPs were that the Executive found it disrespectful of them to bring private members’ Bills. “The challenges of MPs failing to initiate private members’ Bills before Parliament do not only happen in Zimbabwe. It is a global challenge whereby if you want to initiate a new Bill in Parliament when your party has a minister, you should go to the minister so that he initiates the Bill,” Tsabora said. “Private members’ Bills are seen as not respecting the Executive in Parliament, but in the United States of America there have been some successes with private members’ Bills seeing the light of the day, especially if it is a non-partisan Bill,” he said. Speaker of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda said one of the biggest challenges faced by MPs when debating on Bills and motions in Parliament is the whipping system. “MPs think that they have no power but the Constitution says that you have power and Parliament must carry its oversight role without fear or favour. “Yes, there is section 129 (1) (k) which is the whipping system anchored for political parties and sometimes MPs are told in the party caucus that they need to tow the political party line or they no longer represent the interests of the party in the House, and the party writes letters to the Speaker recalling MPs. “That is a catch-22 situation when MPs want to debate on Bills and speak from conviction but at the same time the Executive wants them to tow the
Argued February 26, 1974.
Decided April 23, 1974.
After being denied admission to a state-operated law school, petitioner brought this suit on behalf of himself alone for injunctive relief, claiming that the schools admissions policy racially discriminated against him in violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The trial court agreed and ordered the school to admit him in the fall of 1971. The Washington Supreme Court reversed, holding that the schools admissions policy was not unconstitutional. MR. JUSTICE DOUGLAS, as Circuit Justice, stayed that judgment pending this Courts final disposition of the case, with the result that petitioner was in his final school year when this Court considered his petition for certiorari. After oral argument, the Court was informed that petitioner had registered for his final quarter. Respondents have assured the Court that this registration is fully effective regardless of the ultimate disposition of the case. Held: Because petitioner will complete law school at the end of the term for which he has registered regardless of any decision this Court might reach on the merits, the Court cannot, consistently with the limitations of Art. III of the Constitution, consider the substantive constitutional issues, and the case is moot.
(a) Mootness here does not depend upon a voluntary cessation of the schools admissions practices but upon the simple fact that petitioner is in his final term, and the schools fixed policy to permit him to complete the term.
(b) The case presents no question that is capable of repetition, yet evading review, since petitioner will never again have to go through the schools admissions process, and since it does not follow that the issue petitioner raises will in the future evade review merely because this case did not reach the Court until the eve of petitioners graduation.
82 Wash. 2d 11, 507 P.2d 1169, vacated and remanded.
Josef Diamond argued the cause for petitioners. With him on the briefs was Lyle L. Iversen.
The Catholic church in the Democratic Republic of Congo has waded into the political crisis that has gripped the country calling for a divorce between the two coalitions running the affairs of the state.
On Tuesday (June 30) Archbishop of Kinshasa, Frindolin Ambongo has called for the dissolution of the political alliance between President Tshisekedi and his predecessor Kabila.
The cleric cited mistrust among members of Kabila’s Common Front of Congo, FCC and the president’s Union for Democracy and Social Progress, UPDS.
He noted the current political tension has been stoked by MPs of former president Joseph Kabila’s Common Front for Congo which has a parliamentary majority.
Monsignor Ambongo also accused the president of the Congolese national assembly of ‘contempt’ by renewing the mandate of the head of the country’s electoral commission.
