EC Banks of Elections Review Report

By AEP/Richard Chirombo

The Electoral Commission (EC) has expressed hope the on-going Elections Review exercise would help it handle future polls better.

EC Chairperson, Anastasia Msosa, said in an interview the May19, 2009 Parliamentary and Presidential elections posed a big challenge for the electoral body, but the way it was "successfully" handled raised management prospects for future polls higher.

Msosa said she did not expect findings of the elections' review process to be "much different from what we have noted as some of the problems that marred the elections".

"Of course, we are looking forward to results of the Elections Review process because we stand to learn a lot from them. It was a very big challenge to run to May19 elections but we do not expect the findings to be far much different from what we have found already," said Msosa.

She said the review, which commenced in Lilongwe this week, would also help the EC in preparing for the Local Government elections slated for 2010.

"It is a timely intervention because we stand to benefit a lot, in terms of planning for the local government elections next year," said Msosa.