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Africa-Press – Namibia. <\/strong><\/span> <\/b><\/p>\n

This year\u2019s presidential election will not feature independent presidential candidates.<\/p>\n

This is after the four individuals who wanted to gun for the highest office in the land solo failed to meet all requirements as prescribed by the Electoral Act.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey made it almost impossible for us to meet what was the legal requirement, which was to obtain signatures,\u201d were the words of Ally Angula, one of the presidential hopefuls, after the Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN) rejected her application.<\/p>\n

Angula, together with Frans Koolike, Jeremia Kaambo, and Elsie Chen, attempted to register as independent candidates for the upcoming Presidential and National Assembly elections slated for 27 November.<\/p>\n

However, neither could make it to the presidential race after failing to secure and capture 7 000 electorate signatures as required.<\/p>\n

Angula and Koolike blamed their failure to the ECN for what they termed \u201cECN gratuitous registration requirements.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe biggest challenge has been this new system that ECN has introduced. Because ECN requires that when they open on the 26 September, as an independent candidate, you must submit every name individually on the system,\u201d Angula said.<\/p>\n

She further said, \u201cNow when we work out how long it takes to submit 7 000 names on a system that requires you to have all the details of a person, but the voter\u2019s card has got abbreviated second and third names. And the system of ECN does not take the details that are on the card that were generated from that same system.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThey moved the obligation onto us to say you must obtain and capture. Therefore, we\u2019ve now been dedicated to a process that was so unnecessary. Very unnecessary,\u201d Angula continued.<\/p>\n

Angula, who maintained that she managed to gather the signatures said they were only given 13 days to complete the capturing of the signature, a process that she strongly believed could take 35 days.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve worked out to capture 7 000 names on this new system of ECN. That does not take the details that are on the voter\u2019s card but takes the details that are in the background of the system. It would take 35 days if you worked from 8h00 to 2h00 in the morning,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Angula, a chartered accountant by profession, claimed that she was the first independent candidate who was going through the process of submitting on the system.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey were learning the bugs of the system as we were submitting. However, I\u2019m grateful to the ECN helpdesk. They\u2019ve really helped us wherever we\u2019ve got a challenge. It\u2019s a very slow process. I don\u2019t believe that there\u2019s anything I think we had done the most, where we had captured up to 7 000 on the system, that we defaulted to giving them the physical forms rather,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

On his part, Koolike said, \u201cThey created havoc for us because they gave us a task that was not ours. Now for independent candidates who are not being funded, you now need to deploy resources to catch up if you\u2019ve got 13 days, something that you should have done for 35 days. You must hire people.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also blamed ECN for not having a framework for applying, especially for the independent candidate.<\/p>\n

\u201cFirst, we were told we needed to gather and capture 7 000 signatures, but now they are saying we can only submit 3500 signatures at once with a payment, but that\u2019s not how it\u2019s supposed to be.<\/p>\n

They are supposed to have an open space or open window for applying, so you submit based on that process of an open window for applying until you complete the application process,\u201d he argued.<\/p>\n

Now that he will not feature on the ballot, Koolike threw his support behind the Affirmative Repositioning and its presidential candidate, Job Amupanda.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe offer our solidarity and support to the leader of the Affirmative Repositioning Party on the basis of a generational mission in the fight for social justice and social development,\u201d Koolike announced.<\/p>\n

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