The 2020 Chadema special seats dispute in Tanzania.Does the National Electoral Commission Comply with the Law?-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

The 2020 Chadema special seats dispute in Tanzania.Does the National Electoral Commission Comply with the Law?

Published:2021-10-01 Issue:2 Volume:20 Page:102-119
ISSN:1609-4700
Container-title:Journal of African Elections
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Short-container-title:JAE

Author:

Lihiru Victoria

Abstract

This article focuses on the CHADEMA dispute regarding the selection of its 19 women to special parliamentary seats after the completion of the 2020 general elections in Tanzania. It argues that the dispute is caused by the failure of the National Electoral Commission (NEC) to provide political parties with a uniform and transparent modality for the selection of women to special seats against the requirement of Article 81 of the 1977 Constitution. The NEC’s failure has led to modalities of implementing women’s special seats that are incompatible with the international standards governing ‘Temporary Special Measures’ (TSM). This has led to conflict, the marginalisation and discrimination of women in special seats, ridicule of the special seats system, and a slow transition of women from special to constituency seats. The article provides suggestions on how the special seats system could be reviewed and repositioned to achieve its intended objectives.

Publisher

Electoral Institute for Sustainable Democracy in Africa (EISA)

Subject

Linguistics and Language,Anthropology,History,Language and Linguistics,Cultural Studies

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