The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission held a day-long meeting with officials from the National Super Alliance and Jubilee Party but the substance of the matter was not reached, leading to the suspension of the meeting to 28th October 2017.

According to The Standard, the meeting on repeat elections failed to push through because Siaya Senator James Orengo insisted that Uhuru Kenyatta’s team withdraw the bill on election laws before any substantive talks could start.

Both sides of the divide (Jubilee and NASA) have made public their demands, more commonly referred to as ‘irreducible minimums’, making it hard for a consensus to be reached.

The National Super Alliance presidential candidate Raila Odinga has made it clear that one of the coalition’s priorities is to see IEBC CEO Ezra Chiloba removed from office.

 Jubilee is planning to table a bill seeking to make drastic changes to electoral laws, a move which NASA has opposed. Cementing manual transmission as the main means to transmit results and having electronic transmission as backup is one of the proposed changes.

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As the impasse continues, these are NASA’s and Jubilee’s key demands:

JUBILEE:

Entrench manual transmission of election results as the primary means with electronic transmission as backup

Opposition cannot force staff changes at IEBC using unconstitutional means

Make it mandatory for the Supreme Court to order a ballot recount in the event of a presidential election petition

Rejects proposal to have UNDP (United Nations Development Programme) print ballot papers and result declaration forms

Review the Judicial Service Commission Act to restructure the JSC

NATIONAL SUPER ALLIANCE:

Remove IEBC Chief Executive Ezra Chiloba, deputies Marjan Hassan Marjan, Betty Sungura and nine other top officials

Find firm other than Al Ghurair of Dubai to print presidential ballot papers

Inspection of IEBC servers and portal access to the cloud servers

Establish a bipartisan technical monitoring committee to oversee implementation of the technology in use

Appoint new returning officers in consultation with political parties and candidates