MONROVIA, LIBERIA-The Supreme Court of Liberia is expected to hand down ruling early next week in the case involving the Collaborating Political Parties (CPP) and National Elections Commission (NEC).
Recently, the CPP filed a petition before the Supreme Court to prevent the conduct of the Biometric Voter Registration (BVR), without demarcating constituencies.
The CPP’s petition alleged that NEC’s decision to conduct the VBR exercise without first demarcating constituencies violates Article 80 (e and c) of the 1986 Liberian Constitution.
Article 80(e) provides that “immediately following a national census and before the next elections, the Elections Commission shall reapportion the constituencies in accordance with the new population figures”.
But in counter, the Ministry of Justice and National Elections Commission argued that the ongoing BVR exercise is not in violation of the Constitution, as alleged by the CPP.
They maintained that the demarcation of districts in accordance with census cannot be done until the full census results are released. And NEC can then submit a threshold bill to the National Legislature for deliberation and action.
