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The Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN) is facing a dispute with several political parties over a last-minute proposal to avoid buying ballot papers through the public procurement process.<\/em><\/p>\n Two meetings hosted by the commission this week ended in a stalemate.<\/p>\n Independent Patriots for Change national general secretary Christine Auchamus says the commission has proposed emergency procurement through an international bid.<\/p>\n She says this contradicts the provisions of the law governing procurement at…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> The Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN) is facing a dispute with several political parties over a last-minute proposal to avoid buying ballot papers through the public procurement process. Two meetings hosted by the commission this week ended in a stalemate. Independent Patriots for Change national general secretary Christine Auchamus says the commission has proposed emergency […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":181990,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn02.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00290458:6865a44e3fb7df1c26ad289f729962c9:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,7686,9240,6274,11087,7239,5080,4706,724,257,11889,7024,6378,14537,10809,254],"class_list":["post-181989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-backlash","tag-ballot","tag-commission","tag-controversial","tag-electoral","tag-faces","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-paper","tag-party","tag-political","tag-procurement","tag-proposal","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn02.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00290458:6865a44e3fb7df1c26ad289f729962c9:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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