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IEBC must keep off party primaries

The tenth Parliament has a number of MPs who would never have been elected had their political parties been allowed to have a say on who should have been a candidate in the 2013 polls.

These members were elected on fringe parties despite either having won the party primaries and were locked out, or the tickets were paid for in cash. Others were handed the tickets by courts after their parties plotted to deny them the tickets after winning the primaries.

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