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The National Assembly yesterday unanimously approved two former judges for seats on the country’s top election body ahead of national elections next year despite a boycott by opposition lawmakers...

Laura Thornton, country director for the U.S.-based National Democratic Institute, said it was ironic that the Assembly vote came just weeks after the NEC reached out to international donors to help fund next year’s election with the promise of a free and fair process. “Then you had a selection process [for the NEC] that’s the complete opposite of that, [and] which completely lacks any transparency,” she said.

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