{"id":266413,"date":"2016-11-09T06:00:56","date_gmt":"2016-11-09T06:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=266413"},"modified":"2016-11-09T06:00:56","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T06:00:56","slug":"dont-let-lawsuits-disrupt-election-calendar-emile-short-to-ec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/11\/dont-let-lawsuits-disrupt-election-calendar-emile-short-to-ec\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t let lawsuits disrupt election calendar – Emile Short to EC"},"content":{"rendered":"
A former Commissioner of the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), Justice Emile Short, has urged the\u00a0Electoral Commission to ensure that the electoral process, particularly the time-table, is not disrupted by the several disagreements arising from the decision to\u00a0disqualify some presidential aspirants.<\/p>\n
According to him, the EC must expedite action on the processes of reviewing all submitted forms, to ensure that the country holds the general elections on\u00a0December 7th, as mandated by the constitution.<\/p>\n
Speaking in an interview with Citi News<\/strong> on Tuesday [November 8], on the sidelines of the launch of an interactive voter education platform, \u2018Voter Match\u2019 in Accra, Justice Short said, \u201cthe EC should ensure that this whole process of scrutiny of the nomination forms and taking a decision as to who qualifies and who does not qualify, should be brought back so that candidates will know at an early stage whether they are qualified to stand in the elections or not,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n He added that, doing so will help ensure that \u201cthey [nominees] don\u2019t spend time and resources doing campaign only to be told later that they don\u2019 qualify; so I think it will be prudent to look at the calendar and to make sure that this whole process is done at a reasonable time before the election date itself,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n He further called on the Commission to adopt a participatory approach in dealing with political parties to ensure fairness in the process.<\/p>\n