On October 23, when President Bola Tinubu swore in Joash Amupitan as the new chairman of the INEC, he urged him to ensure ...

Local Civil society groups are urging stronger regional collaboration to push for gender-inclusive electoral reforms that promote women's political leadership, drawing lessons from regional neighbours ...

The recent warning from the Electoral Commission chairman Justice Simon Byabakama regarding voter bribery underscores a critical issue in our democratic process. Bribing voters is not just a legal ...

Key Civil Society Organisations (CSOs ... He, however, lamented the lack of accountability for electoral offences, noting that when wrongdoing goes unpunished, even reform-minded leaders can only ...

Insisting that her reforms are to strengthen democracy and not a shift toward authoritarianism, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum announced Tuesday that she will pursue electoral reform included in ...

Today (5 July) marks the end of 14 years of Conservative rule, which has brought the NHS to its knees, pushed hundreds of thousands of people into poverty, made home ownership a pipe dream for young ...

In a significant step towards strengthening Nigeria's electoral process, the Coalition of Civil Society Organisations has presented a comprehensive Citizens' Memorandum on Electoral Reforms. A voter ...

Civil society organisation, Yiaga Africa has asked the National Assembly to prioritise issues of electoral reforms that will rebuild public trust, improve election integrity, and remove structural and ...

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s electoral watchdog said Friday that about 14,000 people were prevented from voting in last month’s local elections because of a new law requiring voters to show photo ...

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele Wednesday signed a controversial electoral reform into law that will slash the number of seats in the country’s Legislative Assembly from 84 to 60. President Bukele ...

Divisions between the loyalists and their fellow panellists became so explosive that two competing reports were sent to Home Affairs Minister Leon Schreiber, who has tabled them in Parliament.

A prominent Kisumu-based lawyer and former East Africa Law Society president James Aggrey Mwamu has called for urgent electoral reforms in Tanzania, saying the country stands at a "critical democratic ...