{"id":452044,"date":"2011-07-01T13:11:34","date_gmt":"2011-07-01T13:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/07\/01\/ecz-puts-record-straight-over-parley-dissolution\/"},"modified":"2011-07-01T13:11:34","modified_gmt":"2011-07-01T13:11:34","slug":"ecz-puts-record-straight-over-parley-dissolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/01\/ecz-puts-record-straight-over-parley-dissolution\/","title":{"rendered":"ECZ Puts Record Straight Over Parley Dissolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"44.3590742996\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.co.zm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/img\/static\/publishers\/minibanners\/timeszambia180.jpg\" alt=\"The Times of Zambia (Ndola)\" title=\"Visit The Times of Zambia (Ndola)\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>1 July 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>THE Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) has said Parliament can only be dissolved after the elections body has put in place all the logistics needed to conduct the general elections, commission chairperson Ireene Mambilima has said.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Justice Mambilima, who was officiating at a one-day special meeting organised by ECZ and political parties liaison committee, said Parliament could not be dissolved if ECZ was not ready for the polls.<\/p>\n<p>She said ECZ had only up to July 31 to prepare all the logistics and finalise the voter registration verification exercise in order to pave the way for the country&#8217;s tripartite elections.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;ECZ has completed the certification of voter registration from the hard copies last week. We are just receiving information from our field workers and we have to do this by July 31, let people not panic because everything is going on smoothly,&#8221; Ms Justice Mambilima said.<\/p>\n<p>She said the mandate for the current Government would end on October 2 this year because that was the day when the late president Levy Mwanawasa was sworn into office, meaning elections should be held before that date.<\/p>\n<p>And Ms Justice Mambilima has maintained that the organisation would not extend the voter registration exercise because if it did so, it might delay the elections. She said ECZ remained committed to the principles of transparency and accountability, and the important roles stakeholders played in the electoral process.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The commission has noted that information on decisions made at meetings is not always passed on to your respective parties&#8217; rank and file, hence the recurrence of issues that this committee has already addressed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I therefore challenge you to take these meetings seriously because an important channel for sharing information and developments on the electoral process is shared,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>She challenged all political parties that attended the meeting to ensure that the resolutions reached all the organs of their parties to avoid repeating issues resolved at various levels.<\/p>\n<p>The commission was updating political parties on the progress made on preparations of the 2011 voters&#8217; registration and 2011 elections, results management system for this year&#8217;s tripartite elections and the revised electoral code of conduct and electoral regulation.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>More here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201107010822.html\" title=\"ECZ Puts Record Straight Over Parley Dissolution\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ECZ Puts Record Straight Over Parley Dissolution<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 1 July 2011 THE Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) has said Parliament can only be dissolved after the elections body has put in place all the logistics needed to conduct the general elections, commission chairperson Ireene Mambilima has said. Ms Justice Mambilima, who was officiating at a one-day special meeting organised by ECZ and political parties liaison committee, said Parliament could not be dissolved if ECZ was not ready for the polls. She said ECZ had only up to July 31 to prepare all the logistics and finalise the voter registration verification exercise in order to pave the way for the country&#8217;s tripartite elections. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-452044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>ECZ Puts Record Straight Over Parley Dissolution - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/01\/ecz-puts-record-straight-over-parley-dissolution\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"ECZ Puts Record Straight Over Parley Dissolution - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"1 July 2011 THE Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) has said Parliament can only be dissolved after the elections body has put in place all the logistics needed to conduct the general elections, commission chairperson Ireene Mambilima has said. 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