{"id":39480,"date":"2021-11-16T17:08:58","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T17:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/?p=39480"},"modified":"2021-11-16T15:22:08","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T15:22:08","slug":"odm-angered-by-iebc-over-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/odm-angered-by-iebc-over-elections","title":{"rendered":"ODM Angered by IEBC Over Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Kenya. <\/strong><\/span>The Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) Secretary General, Edwin Sifuna, has accused the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission of mistreating political parties as the 2022 General Election draws closer.<\/p>\n<p>Sifuna, who was speaking on Citizen TV\u2019s Day Break Show on November 16, 2021, accused IEBC of trivializing the role of political parties in the election process despite their importance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is very bad manners the way IEBC treats political parties yet we are biggest stakeholders when it comes to elections,\u201d stated Sifuna.<\/p>\n<p>He was expressing the party\u2019s disappointment over last week\u2019s move by IEBC to declare that 89 political parties were non-compliant with nomination rules.<\/p>\n<p>The outspoken ODM politician further faulted IEBC over poor communication, saying that the body is using the wrong channels to pass its message. Sifuna argued that the choice of channels is diminutive and does not exhibit respect to the parties.<\/p>\n<p>He argued that political parties should be addressed confidentially and in an official manner rather than using the press.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t find it amusing that they could write letters to us as political parties and before we receive those letters, they have sent copies to you in the media,\u201d the angered Sifuna noted.<\/p>\n<p>The 2017 Nairobi County ODM Senatorial aspirant also expressed concerns over the electoral body\u2019s tendency to put all parties in one basket, protesting that parties such as ODM had complied with the nomination rules and do not deserve to be shamed as other small parties.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, November 10, 2021, IEBC issued a statement through a presser, urging the 89 affected political parties to comply with nomination rules.<\/p>\n<p>The parties were ordered to submit the revised and compliant nomination rules before the lapse of 16 days, upon which they would be issued with compliance certificates.<\/p>\n<p>The electoral agency further threatened that parties whose nomination rules will not be aligned with the requisite regulations, shall not receive compliance acknowledgment, and consequently be barred from participating in the upcoming elections.<\/p>\n<p>ODM fell victim to IEBC\u2019s action over their gender imbalance in the composition of the Internal Dispute Resolution Tribunal, which the party feels did not deserve such public attention.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\">Kenya<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Kenya. The Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) Secretary General, Edwin Sifuna, has accused the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission of mistreating political parties as the 2022 General Election draws closer. Sifuna, who was speaking on Citizen TV\u2019s Day Break Show on November 16, 2021, accused IEBC of trivializing the role of political parties in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":39479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,10,16],"tags":[6857,7003,544],"class_list":["post-39480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-parties","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-kenya","tag-kenya"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>ODM Angered by IEBC Over Elections - kenya<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) Secretary General, Edwin Sifuna, has accused the Independent Electoral and Boundari ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/odm-angered-by-iebc-over-elections\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"ODM Angered by IEBC Over Elections\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) Secretary General, Edwin Sifuna, has accused the Independent Electoral and Boundari ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/odm-angered-by-iebc-over-elections\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"kenya\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-11-16T17:08:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2021\/11\/img-6193cc8c9ef25.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"360\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/odm-angered-by-iebc-over-elections#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/odm-angered-by-iebc-over-elections\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"ODM Angered by IEBC Over Elections\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-11-16T17:08:58+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/odm-angered-by-iebc-over-elections\"},\"wordCount\":369,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/odm-angered-by-iebc-over-elections#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2021\/11\/img-6193cc8c9ef25.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Kenya\",\"Kenya\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"parties\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/odm-angered-by-iebc-over-elections#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/odm-angered-by-iebc-over-elections\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/odm-angered-by-iebc-over-elections\",\"name\":\"ODM Angered by IEBC Over Elections - 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