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How MPs can defeat President Uhuru Kenyatta and Raila Odinga’s ‘party hopping’ rule

By | Feb. 20, 2017

Registrar of Political Parties Lucy Ndung'u

NAIROBI: President Uhuru Kenyatta and Opposition chief Raila Odinga’s plan to curb ‘party hopping’ in the August polls is likely to be dealt a blow by a loophole in the Constitution and the subsidiary electoral laws.

Political party aspirants contesting for various seats in primaries set by the electoral body for April have a chance to maximise on an open window between it and that of independent candidates as stipulated under Article 85 of the Constitution, lawyers who spoke to The Standard say.

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