Law Reform Commission recommends amendments to the Electoral Act

Erasmus Shalihaxwe The Law Reform and Development Commission has recommended that the Electoral Act of 2014 be amended to make provision for candidates nominated to the National Assembly list to be placed on leave, a practice already in place for Regional Council and Local Authority Elections. Last year, the Commission submitted a report titled “Statutory Submission in Terms of Section 6(e) of the Report on the Review of Article 46 of the Constitution and Section 77(4)(a) of the Electoral Act, 2014 (Act No. 5 of 2014)” to the Minister of Justice, Yvonne Dausab, containing these recommendations. The Commission was assigned…