A Namibian court has greanted two opposition parties access to inspect the data from the just ended elections.
The two parties won a court order on Friday allowing them to inspect election materials they had requested to see.
The Independent Patriots for Change joined by the Landless People’s Movement won a court order on Friday allowing them to inspect election materials they had requested to see.
According to the parties, the data will enable them consider whether to iniutiate proceedings concerning the validity of the elections.
In the just ended elections in the Southern African country, the ruling party SWAPO won both the presidential and parliamentary elections on November 27.
The largest opposition party in the country, the Independent Patriots for Change (IPC), in a court filing seen by a media source, stated that « There were clearly irregularities in the election. IPC seeks the information in order to … determine the extent of the irregularities, »
Following the hearing, the country’s electoral court ordered the electoral commission to provide the parties with election materials such as the number of votes cast and counted at each polling station on each day for their inspection.
The court tasked the commission to produce the data next week.
President-elect Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah in her victory speech last week, dismissed allegations that the election was flawed.
Nandi-Ndaitwah is expected to assume office in March as the country’s first female president.
