Mudavadi Announces Final Decision on What NASA Will Do to IEBC

The National Super Alliance (NASA) has resolved that it will not hold any other casual or board room meetings with the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission, as the body is currently constituted.

In a statement issued on Thursday, NASA co-principal Musalia Mudavadi, in no uncertain terms, told journalists that subsequent meetings with the elections body would be "open structured national stakeholder dialogues" whose resolutions would be shared with the public.

Mudavadi further highlighted five key conditions for the IEBC to implement before the October 17 presidential poll is carried out. He noted that they had conveyed their preconditions to the IEBC in a letter.

NASA demanded that the IEBC conduct a fresh and credible procurement process of election materials protesting the decision to enlist Al Ghurair as the contracted printer of election ballot papers.

Second, the Opposition has demanded that the ICT systems that will be used by the IEBC be made transparent and accessible to the candidates.

Next, the coalition has demanded the immediate "replacement of irredeemable personnel who abetted electoral fraud" while making reference to IEBC CEO Ezra Chiloba

They further termed the CEO as an unreasonable fellow as evidenced by an interview he took with NTV on Wednesday.

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Fourth, NASA principals demanded that the IEBC conduct a fresh gazettement of all the polling stations that will be used during the October 17 presidential poll.

Finally, the Opposition leaders have ordered the IEBC to make provisions in all 290 constituency tallying centres that will enable the live transmission of presidential election results as was done at the National tallying centre during the August 8 polls.

"Our irreducible demands are not impossibilities, ours are within the emerging broad international consensus that the IEBC needs to correct irregularities and illegalities in order to carry out a credible election," Mudavadi stated, adding that the EU Observer Mission had expressed similar sentiments.

Following the new terms, the NASA co-principal assured members of the public that the letter detailing the demands would be published in a local daily on Friday.

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