{"id":5342,"date":"2019-07-16T01:06:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T01:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orpp.or.ke\/?p=5342"},"modified":"2023-10-30T09:17:23","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T09:17:23","slug":"political-parties-propose-further-legal-interpretation-to-crack-court-verdict-impasse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orpp.or.ke\/sw\/political-parties-propose-further-legal-interpretation-to-crack-court-verdict-impasse\/","title":{"rendered":"Political parties propose further legal interpretation to crack court verdict impasse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">By Mutethia Mberia<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Lion Place Nairobi, Kenya; July,16,2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">A high court ruling over the two-third gender principle, over two years on, continues to draw opposing&nbsp;positions from players across in the political space in the country. The ruling stems from a suit by the&nbsp;Katiba Institute against Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) seeking implementation&nbsp;of the Constitutional provision on the gender rule. Its determination delivered on 20 th April 2017 in favour of&nbsp;the Petitioner, has since been a cause of difficulty, largely owing to lack of an enacted piece of legislation to&nbsp;actualize the requirement.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Interpretations and implications have further caused a stir. To some, the determination was purposefully&nbsp;dispensed, ill-intended, bears irreconcilable contradictions, offends the free will of the people as enshrined&nbsp;under article 38 of the Constitution and is unenforceable in the current circumstances. To a host of others,&nbsp;it is the right direction towards placing the responsibility where it ought to be.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">It is the magnitude of the foregoing, that the IEBC in collaboration with ORPP convened the National&nbsp;Political Parties Liaison Committee (PPLC) on Thursday 11 th July 2019, to deliberate and formulate a way&nbsp;forward on the matter. Presentations made by ORPP\u2019s Juliet Murimi, Bonface Olwal and IEBC\u2019s&nbsp;Salome Oyugi, on the numerous provisions of the Constitution, the reading and the legal interpretations of&nbsp;the ruling were the premise on which participants anchored their deliberations.&nbsp;\u201cWe don\u2019t want the burden of implementing this tricky directive left on political parties as honourable court&nbsp;ruled under disposition 85 (1), the reason as to why we are all here as concerned institutions led by IEBC to&nbsp;dissect the matter\u201d, Registrar Anne Nderitu said in her opening remarks. However, she implored on all to&nbsp;purpose putting the needs of interest groups fore in all realms of life as a matter of responsibility not a legal&nbsp;obligation, a sure way for a cohesive and peaceful co-existence.&nbsp;Prof. Abdi Guliye, a Commissioner of IEBC, spearheading the deliberations highlighted a number of&nbsp;proposals he termed as progressive alternatives as efforts to realize the principle. \u201cSince we are in this&nbsp;together, as IEBC we seek your indulgence in coming with solutions at this critical time of our election&nbsp;cycle\u201d, the Commissioner urged.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">After lengthy deliberations, members tasked the PPLC\u2019s Legislation Sub-Committee with administrative&nbsp;support of IEBC, within three weeks, to work out modalities of actualizing the agreed way forward. Some of&nbsp;the possible ways agreed on were to: seek appropriate further legal interpretation of the ruling, consider&nbsp;and exhaust other appeal mechanisms that may be, convene a further inter-agency consultative meeting&nbsp;between Judiciary and the Parliamentary Constitutional Implementation Committee, seek for possible staying orders to&nbsp;implement the ruling as well as consolidate a joint memoranda as the position on the matter by the&nbsp;respective political parties\u2019 National Executive Councils.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The PPLCs is a Committee established under section 38 of the Political Parties Act operational at national&nbsp;and county level to provide a dialogue platform between the ORPP, IEBC&nbsp;and political parties.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/myphotos\/Group_photo.jpg\" alt=\"Group photo\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: #00ffff;\"><em><strong>Participants drawn from ORPP, IEBC and political parties in a group photo during the meeting&nbsp;<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mutethia MberiaLion Place Nairobi, Kenya; July,16,2019. A high court ruling over the two-third gender principle, over two years on, continues to draw opposing&nbsp;positions from players across in the political space in the country. The ruling stems from a suit by the&nbsp;Katiba Institute against Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) seeking implementation&nbsp;of the Constitutional provision [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Political parties propose further legal interpretation to crack court verdict impasse - ORPP<\/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:\/\/orpp.or.ke\/sw\/political-parties-propose-further-legal-interpretation-to-crack-court-verdict-impasse\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Political parties propose further legal interpretation to crack court verdict impasse - ORPP\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Mutethia MberiaLion Place Nairobi, Kenya; July,16,2019. 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