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How Jubilee’s draft law seeks to change election rules

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If only one candidate remains in a fresh presidential election, he/she shall be declared president-elect without polls being held, proposes a Bill on electoral reforms.

The proposal in the Bill introduced in the National Assembly on Thursday during a stormy session seems to address threats by NASA presidential candidate Raila Odinga not to enlist his candidature for the repeat polls scheduled for October 26.

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