IEBC threatens lock parties out over two-thirds gender rule

IEBC Chairman Wafula Chebukati. [Elvis Ogina, Standard]

Some 43 political parties risk being locked out of the August elections for failing to comply with the two-thirds gender principle.

The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission is pushing political parties to comply with provisions of the Constitution that direct that one gender should not make up more than two-thirds of any elective office. The electoral body now says a number of the 81 political parties that submitted their nomination lists before the lapse of the April 28 deadline had not met the requirement.