PAC optimistic that Covid-19 will not disturb election

 

 

The Parliamentary Legal Affairs Committee is optimistic that the coronavirus will not disrupt the forthcoming fresh presidential election.

With growing public distrust in the authorities, there are fears that the figures may be bloated on purpose to frustrate the election.

Critics also accuse the government of deliberately failing to provide adequate security to the returnees, who then escape the dispatch centres.

They claim this is done to escalate the spread of the virus, and then cancel the election.

Parliament is meeting this week for the 2020/21 national budget and also come up with a suitable date for the fresh election.