{"id":225013,"date":"2026-02-25T00:13:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T22:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-feb-26-by-elections-iebc-urges-compliance-with-campaign-deadlines-warns-of-penalties\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T00:13:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T22:13:17","slug":"kenya-feb-26-by-elections-iebc-urges-compliance-with-campaign-deadlines-warns-of-penalties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-feb-26-by-elections-iebc-urges-compliance-with-campaign-deadlines-warns-of-penalties\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Feb 26 By-Elections &#8211; IEBC Urges Compliance With Campaign Deadlines, Warns of Penalties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has issued a stern warning to all candidates participating in the February 26 by-elections, cautioning them against continued campaigning after the official campaign period ended on Monday at 6:00 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Chairperson Edung Ethekon emphasized that &#8220;any candidate found engaging in campaigning or voter mobilization beyond the legal deadline would face administrative sanctions in accordance with the law.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">The by-elections, scheduled for Thursday,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602240617.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has issued a stern warning to all candidates participating in the February 26 by-elections, cautioning them against continued campaigning after the official campaign period ended on Monday at 6:00 p.m. Chairperson Edung Ethekon emphasized that &#8220;any candidate found engaging in campaigning or voter mobilization beyond the legal deadline [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":225014,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,19622,4302,12426,30659,32376,10985,4688,430,257,18165,254,6810,6853],"class_list":["post-225013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-byelections","tag-campaign","tag-compliance","tag-deadlines","tag-feb","tag-iebc","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-penalties","tag-south-africa-today","tag-urges","tag-warns"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225013","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}