Africa-Press – Botswana. The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) has confirmed the Bosele and Grootlaagte ward council candidates for the March 25 bye-elections.
IEC spokesperson, Mr Osupile Maroba, said in an interview on Monday that Botswana Congress Party’s (BCP) Mr Kaelo Kgomotso, Botswana Democratic Party’s (BDP) Mr Isaac Moseki, Botswana Labour Party’s (BLP) Ms Olebile Sesupo, Umbrella for Democratic Change’s (UDC) Mr Mpule Maplanka and an independent candidate Mr Montsho Molomo would vie for the Bosele vacant seat.
The Grootlaagte ward in the Ghanzi North constituency is contested by BDP’s Mr Petro Moretlwa, BMD’s Mr Kopanelo Theko, UDC’s Mr Sehakgamaleng Tjitemisa and independent candidate Mr Jacob Malesele.
He said Grootlaagte ward polling stations are Grootlaagte Primary School, Farm 142-NK and Farm 5-NK , while Bosele ward polling stations are Bosele Primary School, Taung Primary School and Lot 6415 (Extension 20).
He explained that during the 2019 registration, 880 people registered to vote at Grootlaagte while 1 773 had registered to vote at Bosele ward.
Nonetheless, he highlighted that the number of voters in the two wards could still go up or down depending on the outcome of last year’s nationwide supplementary registrations as well as transfer ins and outs.
However, he said only voters who were validly registered would be allowed to cast their votes.
Mr Maroba added that after last year’s supplementary registration, IEC published a voter’s roll to be inspected by members of the public for either correction of names or rejection of some registrations.
H said the inspection period had long lapsed and names had been admitted into the voters roll, which automatically closed door for any query from the public about the roll.
He further added that all those who registered during the previous supplementary registrations had been admitted to the roll unless they were rejected for whatsoever reasons.
In addition, Mr Maroba said currently, voter transfers in the two wards was barred.
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