The SNP candidates for the May presidential election met with a Commonwealth pre-election delegation at Arpent Vert to discuss on conditions for fair elections.
The SNP delegation was headed by Presidential Candidate Wavel Ramkalawan. It included the Vice-Presidential nominee, Nicholas Prea, SNP Secretary-General Roger Mancienne and legal advisor Bernard Georges who is also the SNP Liaison with the Electoral Commissioner's office.
The Commonwealth group was led by Ambassador Ayo Oke, head of the African section in the Commonwealth Secretariat’s Political Affairs Division and two technical experts, Martin Kasirye and Sabhita Raju.
Ambassador Oke says they are here to assess the political situation prior to elections including the issues of concern of the different parties.
The SNP officials took the opportunity to review the outstanding obstacles to a fair electoral process, including the state broadcaster SBC’s bias, the use of state resources by the ruling party, the use of the security forces for partisan politics and the failure to do away with restrictions on the right to assembly imposed by the Public Order Act.
The SNP Leader says, his party has made a written submission on these points to the group and expects that they will be taken up with the Electoral Commissioner.
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