Sierra Leone Plans Controversial Return To Old Voting System | General News

Sierra Leone is to drop its present voting system and return to proportional illustration, the president has decreed.

But the primary opposition All People's Congress (APC) celebration is contemplating mounting a authorized problem, in response to consultant Sidi Yahya Tunis, who referred to as the president's choice "ill-advised".

In 1996, when multiparty democracy was reintroduced and with the civil warfare raging on the time, the nation carried out its parliamentary elections underneath a proportional illustration system.

MPs acquired elected primarily based on the share of the favored vote their events obtained nationwide - so long as they obtained a minimum of greater than 5%.

In 2002, Sierra Leone launched single-member constituencies with MPs elected on a -first-past-the-post foundation.

Making the announcement on Friday, high electoral commissioner Mohamed Konneh stated the choice to return to the sooner PR system adopted a presidential directive in accordance with the nation's structure.

He stated as a result of the nation's constituency boundaries had expired and couldn't be re-drawn inside the constitutionally said interval forward of the following election “the boundary delimitation exercise which had commenced is halted with immediate effect”.