The Electoral Commission has today given five Registered Political Parties a copy of the complete set of the National Register of Voters in order to help them prepare accordingly for next years’ General Election.
Chairperson of the Electoral Commission Suresh Chandra says that these parties include the Fiji United Freedom Party, FijiFirst Party, Fiji Labour Party, National Federation Party and Social Democratic Liberal Party.
Chandra adds the Peoples’ Democratic Party did not attend the presentation but a copy will be sent to them.
He says that the Electoral Commission also approved the rules governing objections and appeals to registration on the National Register of Voters.
Chandra highlighted that Section 155(b) of the Electoral Act 2014 specifies that the Electoral Commission may makes Rules relating to voter registration and maintenance of the Register of Voters.
He adds that currently there are no provisions where a person can lodge a complaint against a registration and the rules will create this process and allow for natural justice principles to be exercised during the adjudication process.
Chandra says that an appeals process has also been established to allow the Electoral Commission to finalize the verification of a voter.
The National Register of voters contains the details of 605,997 Fijians eligible to vote next year.
