MPs shoot down Bill to alter election date

Kenyan · 2015-10-02T08:46:44+00:00

Kenyans will vote in August during the 2017 General Election, as stipulated in the Constitution, after MPs rejected a Bill that would have changed the date to December. Despite the lawmakers having passed a Constitution Amendment Bill to transfer the Equalisation Fund from constituencies to counties, with the required two thirds majority, the numbers fell moments later, resulting in the defeat of the draft law on the election date. MPs from marginalised regions celebrated as billions of shillings from the Equalisation Fund will now be handled by them, and not governors. They will have a say on which projects to be given priority. The fund, created by the Constitution, is meant to benefit marginalised counties. The Bill to transfer the fund was sponsored by Samburu West MP Lati Lelelit. Some 246 MPs voted for it, and only two opposed it. Bill rebuffed National Assembly Speaker Justin Muturi said the Bill, which led to the first amendment of the Constitution, voted for by Kenyans in 2010, would be forwarded to the Senate for consideration. The Bill to change the election date, sponsored by Ugenya MP David Ochieng, suffered a blow after it failed to meet the required two thirds majority. It secured 216 votes, 17 short of the required majority. Twenty-four MPs voted against it and four abstained. Source: Daily Nation

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Start date Oct 2, 2015

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