The National Initiative for Civic Education (NICE) Public Trust will be hosting the Consultative Meeting on electoral reforms in Malawi with financial support from the European Union (EU).
The meeting, it was learnt, will bring together key democracy-promotion stakeholders, including international non-governmental organisations (INGOs) and civil society organisations (CSOs), working in the governance sector to review the current state of electoral reforms.
Development Diaries gathered that, according to the concept of the symposium, the other stakeholders to be invited to attend the meeting include officials from the election management body, development aid agencies, African Union, representatives of political parties, members of parliament, and the academia.
The Executive Director of NICE, Ollen Mwalubunju, stated that the meeting would look into the progress, challenges, lessons, and emerging issues that require reforms since the constitutional review in 2007 to the introduction of electoral bills in parliament in 2017, the announcement of constitutional court ruling, and holding of the fresh presidential elections.
‘By the end of the meeting, we want to see a wide range of key stakeholders from government, civil society, academia, business, and citizens being mobilised and engaged on the electoral reforms’ advocacy agenda; electoral reforms that emerged from constitutional and supreme court are mapped out and consolidated and relevant electoral reforms from both the constitutional review process (2007) and 2017 electoral bills are reviewed’, Mwalubunju said.
Source: Nyasa Times
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