ZEC prepares work plan for re-election

 The Zanzibar Electoral Commission (ZEC) yesterday concluded  two days meeting for secretariat to prepare the work plan for re-election.

 

The meeting which was the first one to be held since the annulment of the General Election results on October 28, last year was held under the Commission’s Chairman Jecha Salim Jecha. However  the meeting did not set the date for re-election.

 

Reports from within the meeting said that the Commission secretariat has been tasked to prepare the work plan and complete it within the required time.

 

Speaking to The Guardian in Zanzibar on Wednesday one of the Commissioners, Salmin Senga said that the meeting discussed the election agenda and reached to that decision.

 

“The ZEC secretariat has been tasked to prepare the work plan on how the election will be repeated and submit the report to the Commission,” Senga said.

 

 He however said that ZEC has not given time frame for the Secretariat to complete its task noting that the Secretariat will not need to consider the entire election procedures.

 

However, when asked to give more details of the meeting ZEC Director of Election, Salum Kassim Ali declined saying that he was not the Commission’s spokesperson.

 

The Commission’s Deputy Chairman, Judge Abdulhakim Issa Amer confirmed that the meeting had taken place.  He said the meeting had two agendas among them going through the records of the previous meetings and before the cancellation of the election results. He however said that he was not in good position to comment on the resolutions of the meeting and advised the reporter to contact the Commission’s Chairman Jecha.

 

In October 28 last year ZEC chairman Jecha Salim Jecha announced the nullification of the General Election results in Zanzibar citing what he described as a number of shortfalls in the conduct of the poll that had also contributed to delay in the compilation and announcement of the results.

 

According to Jecha, the ‘shortfalls’ included differences among ZEC members, with some having turned representatives of their respective parties.

 

SOURCE: THE GUARDIAN