Africa-Press – Namibia. SWAPO’S candidate Michael Kampota has been reconfirmed as the winner of the Ndonga Linena constituency election.
This after the Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN) was ordered to recount the votes casted in 2020 for that constituency by the Electoral Court. The All People’s Party (APP) contested the outcome of last year’s elections for that constituency.
Kampota was declared the winner and was sworn in as regional councillor for the Ndonga Linena constituency after he received 12 more votes than Daniel Djami of the APP.
He initially received 1 073 votes, while Djami had 1 061 votes. Two candidates from the Popular Democratic Movement and the Independent Patriots for Change received 146 and 70 votes respectively. About 57 ballots were rejected at 11 fixed and mobile polling points in the constituency.
The APP contested that the rejected ballots had markings on which indicated the choice of candidate that the voter using each ballot had made, but the ballots were nevertheless rejected and not included among votes which were counted. After the recount, the ECN declared Kampota the winner again after he received 1094 votes, 24 more than APP’s Djami, who received 1 074.
