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Law should enhance democracy and electoral processes

Party primaries are the essence of democracy. They allow party members to select their leaders. [Boniface Okendo, Standard]

The declaration on criteria for free and fair elections by Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) in 1994 reaffirmed the significance of civil and political rights which established that the authority to govern shall be based on the will of the people.

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