{"id":51984,"date":"2017-08-18T10:43:36","date_gmt":"2017-08-18T08:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=51984"},"modified":"2017-08-18T10:43:37","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T08:43:37","slug":"pac-wants-parliament-to-discus-electoral-reforms-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2017\/08\/18\/pac-wants-parliament-to-discus-electoral-reforms-november\/","title":{"rendered":"Pac wants Parliament to discus electoral reforms November"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>P<\/strong>ublic Affairs Committee (Pac) has asked the government and all stakeholders involved in electoral reforms to have the Electoral Reforms Bill ready for tabling in Parliament by November.<\/p>\n<p>Pac Publicity Secretary, Peter Mulomole, made the remarks after the committee\u2019s board meeting on Wednesday in Blantyre.<\/p>\n<p>Mulomole said the pace of the electoral reforms has been slower than expected, contrary to what presidential candidates during the 2014 tripartite elections campaign period had promised.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe hoped that by now, the reforms would have made good progress, three years after the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) ascended to power. All aspiring candidates made promises to propagate the reforms in good time. We should have been somewhere by now,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mulomole said the Ministry of Justice and Constitutional Affairs had assured Pac that the reforms will be tabled in November\u2019s sitting of Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are looking forward to November. We know there is a lot that has to be done before the reforms are finally passed because they have to go through Cabinet. But we are hopeful that come November, the reforms will be tabled in Parliament,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mulomole said there have been formal and informal meetings between Pac and the government on the issues that were discussed at the 5+1 All Inclusive Stakeholders Conference, which took place in June.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have been meeting various government officials to discuss recommendations of the 5+1 All Inclusive Stakeholders Conference and we are making progress,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The committee is scheduled to meet Local Government Minster, Kondwani Nankhumwa, today to discuss progress made on the Local Government Act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public Affairs Committee (Pac) has asked the government and all stakeholders involved in electoral reforms to have the Electoral Reforms Bill ready for tabling in Parliament by November. Pac Publicity Secretary, Peter Mulomole, made the remarks after the committee\u2019s board meeting on Wednesday in Blantyre. Mulomole said the pace of the electoral reforms has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":44434,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51988,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51984\/revisions\/51988"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}