Pursuing its general activities in view of the upcoming elections, the Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) met Thursday, June 30, at 10:00 am, then at 4:00 pm, political parties around the deployment of their representatives at the elections of 9 october and 2016 and 8 January 2017. At the beginning of this exchange and informations meeting, the President of the CEP, Léopold Berlanger outlined six working components of CEP for the elections.

The 1sr component concerns the identity of the voters. Nobody can vote in polls, if his name is not on the list issued by the CEP.

In the 2nd component, the Council focuses on reform of the electoral machine. Of reforms to apply are made from a work schedule.

Through the 3rd component, the Commission intends to give the opportunity to citizens and actors of civil society to take ownership of the electoral process, to facilitate the mobilization and citizen vigilance.

In the 4th component, the strengthening of Votes Tabulation Center (CTV) to make it more rigorous, more efficient and more reliable, prevails.

As for the 5th component, it focuses on maintaining the partnership CEP/Government, while the 6th takes account of the legal and security aspects of operations. The Council attaches great importance to the regulations. In this sense, an electoral code of conduct is being developed in order to solve problems for which the Constitution and the Electoral Decree have nothing planned.

Regarding the deployment of representaives, the Council presented to political leaders a plan that allows political parties and groups to register themselves, their representatives on the CEP website safely. By this method, any duplication of mandates will not be possible. The CEP is committed in the same vein, to provide political entities of training tools for their representatives.

In addition, the Council made an explicit presentation of the steps already taken in the electoral process and the decisions adopted.

Political parties have shown concern about including : electoral violence, CEP's decision to place witnesses at the voting centers, the question of change of address, voter awareness, the national ID cards in circulation without the control of the ONI, the financing of the electoral campaign, the budget of the elections to be held, the local production of ballots, the repatriation of the electoral process, the necessary changes in the electoral machine.

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