The national deputy Jackson Ausse Afingoto, during his intervention on the reform of the electoral law, pleaded for the maintenance of the electoral threshold as was the case in the previous electoral law. This elected member of Together for the Republic believes that given the size of the country, the political forces must work together or in groups to ensure the development of the country.
For Jackson Ausse Afingoto, the electoral law must facilitate voters in order to be validly represented in the National Assembly.
“The electoral law is a law of the people because it is the people who vote and we must effectively allow them when there is a vote that this can allow them to be validly represented. This is why the electoral law must give us a transparent election. This is why I am going to dwell on the problem of the electoral threshold. According to the proposal that was presented to us, we are asked to replace the threshold by the percentage in proportion to the lists Or the number of candidates depending on the seat to be filled, but I’m thinking why we instituted the threshold in 2018 and why we want to replace the threshold with the percentage in proportion to the seats to be filled? Frankly, politics is a game which must be done together, as a group. We really have to surpass ourselves to strengthen all the mechanisms that must push people to become and work in a group”, said Ausse Afingoto Jackson in his speech. on, Friday, April 22, 2022.
And to add:
“We can only build this country if we develop the culture of working as a group. It is for this reason that I tell myself the percentage (60%) seems ridiculous to me, if it is the percentage that is needed retain it it should not be 60% the need would be to go beyond 60% but I would like to persuade you that we remain in the logic of the electoral threshold and why not reinforce the electoral threshold because you will understand that at the beginning of this legislature, we were all in the parliamentary groups, there were fewer non-attached members and this facilitates our parliamentary work, doesn’t it.
He also insisted on the need to oblige the Independent National Electoral Commission to provide witnesses with the minutes after the elections. For him, without the report, the task is difficult for the candidate deputy during litigation.
“The management of minutes is the problem in our elections, frankly, we must be able to insist that witnesses of political parties or witnesses of candidates must access the minutes of the elections from the polling station because the lack of minutes at the level of appeals to the Constitutional Court, we are asked to present the minutes from the moment the independent national electoral commission deprived you of having these minutes sometimes it still puts the candidate deputies who are in dispute at odds, j insists we must expressly ask that it be an obligation for the independent national electoral commission to give the minutes to our witnesses”, he recommended.
For the elections of governors, the elected representative of Irumu in the province of Ituri opposed the sponsorship proposal. He felt that MLAs as voters cannot yet sponsor candidates.
“The proposal asks us to work or to proceed with the sponsorship system, I wonder who is sponsoring? Because the sponsorship here, we have been asked that it be the candidate provincial deputies who will start sponsoring the governor tickets but the sponsorship system is not compatible with the status of the electors. Here, the provincial deputies are naturally the electors of the governors, it is necessary to seek perhaps an entity which must play the sponsorship of the lists where tickets governors” added Jackson Ausse Afingoto .
The national elected representatives of the FCC and Lamuka did not take part in this debate. They continue to demand dialogue outside the institutions in order to reach a consensus around the ongoing electoral process.