General Election observers have lately come up with a recommendation saying some civic rights need to be incorporated in the Constitution to guarantee democratic elections.
One of the important rights is to allow people contesting presidential election results in the court of law.
The report of oberservers was launched very recently in Dar es Salaam. It is based on lessons learnt from the presidential elections held last year in October.
The report by two local observers writes citizens in the diaspora should cast their ballot.
Research on Democracy and Education in Tanzania (Redet) and Legal and Human Rights Centre (LHRC) are the two local observers that prepared the report and released it after five months of tightly contested election on October 25. Many observers hailed the polls were free and fair.
Bribing during nomination processes is one of the key problems in the country and the report said parties failed to get good candidates.
It is urged to make permanent voter register open for everyone to become aware of the contents. This will help the parties to plan the kind of campaigns to reach most of the voters.
Statistics show there were 22,751,292 registered voters in last year’s elections in Mainland Tanzania and in Zanzibar the figure was 503,193. However, only 8,398,394 voters turned out to the polling centers which were 42.64 percent. The remaining voters were spoilt due to ignorance of the rules of the game.
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