The Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN) has successfully concluded the candidate nomination process for the Kabbe South constituency by-election, scheduled for 17 June in the Zambezi region.
ECN Zambezi regional electoral officer Lesley Simwanza said only two candidates were successfully registered to contest the by-election: Raymond Sezuni of the Swapo Party, and Independent Patriots for Change’s (IPC) Shamwazi Sydney Mpunga.
Simwanza said there were no applications from independent candidates, whose nomination dates ran from 23 April until 6 May.
Political party nominations ran from 23 April until 8 May.
“ECN applauds all political parties for heading the call to comply with the relevant legal provisions,” he stated.
According to Simwanza, there are over 3 500 registered eligible voters in the constituency.
In the coming weeks, the ECN will focus on training polling officials, conducting voter education, sampling ballot papers, designing and printing ballots, as well as determining possible polling stations in the flood-affected constituency.
The by-election was necessitated by the resignation of former Kabbe South constituency councillor, John Likando, who is now a member of the National Assembly.
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