The Electoral Court will hear the election challenge for the National Assembly this Wednesday, and the police chief says that threats of potential violence and unrest have reached the ears of the security cluster. Lieutenant General Josef Shikongo has warned that the police will not tolerate any form of violence or allow chaos under his […]
Swapo’s Political Bureau member, Frans Kapofi, has called on party members and supporters to vote for Moses ||Khumub in the Guinas by-election scheduled for next week. Kapofi spoke at a mini rally at the Ondera Farm. He stated that Swapo is the only tested and capable political party deserving the Ondera community’s support to continue […]
Preparations for the Guinas Constituency by-election are well on track. The by-election, which is slated for Friday next week, has been necessitated by the death of Councillor Elias Marthinus last year. The Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN) says it is at an advanced stage in executing activities for the by-election. Only two political parties will […]
The Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN) has dismissed the Independent Patriots for Change’s (IPC) Electoral Court application as “vague and embarrassing.” This is the second respondent, together with the Swapo Party, who is asking the court to dismiss the application. In its replying affidavit to the IPC’s application to the Electoral Court, the ECN states […]
The Landless People’s Movement (LPM) wants the country to head to the polls again by 19 March for fresh presidential and national assembly elections. The LPM is the second political party to approach the Supreme Court, seeking to nullify the results of the recently held 2024 Presidential and National Assembly Elections. The party’s leader, Bernardus […]
The Landless People’s Movement’s (LPM) Fransiscus Khumub and his older brother, the Swapo Party’s Moses Khumub, are the only two candidates to contest the Oshikoto Region’s Guinas constituency by-election set for the 17th of January. The Electoral Commission of Namibia’s (ECN) returning officer for the Guinas constituency, Sion Shikufinde, informed NAMPA that they are well […]
Swapo Party Secretary General Sofia Shaningwa has issued a formal response to two court cases filed by the Independent Patriots for Change seeking to nullify the results of Namibia’s Presidential and National Assembly Elections held in late November 2024. In her court submission, Shaningwa argued that the IPC’s failure to include the concerned returning officers […]
The Electoral Commission of Namibia says the preparation for the Guinas Constituency by-election in the Oshikoto Region is on course as per the electoral schedule. The Corporate Communications and Marketing Manager at ECN De wet Siluka says only two parties will be contesting the Guinas Constituency by-elections slated for 17 January 2025. The two parties […]
The Independent Patriots for Change (IPC) has filed notices against the Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN), alleging widespread irregularities in the recent Presidential and National Assembly elections. The party’s president, Panduleni Itula, called the conduct of the ECN a disgrace and a violation of the rule of law and wants the results declared invalid, unlawful, […]
The Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN) says it is prepared to provide answers to questions emanating from the November 27th national elections as well as the inspection of non-sensitive election materials. The inspection of election material came after the Independent Patriots for Change (IPC) and the Landless People’s Movement (LPM) approached the Electoral Court to […]
