The National Electoral Commission (NEC) has confirmed that those vying for senatorial seats will have to use their own money in campaigning for their respective positions.
However, what the electoral commission will assist is by organizing campaign sessions involving both sector and district advisory councils who are also the eligible voters. According to NEC chairman the gatherings will be conducted at least twice in every district.
Even though the applicants will be allowed to cater for their campaign expenses the electoral commission will give a timetable in order to discourage corrupt activities from those who would want gain favors by persuading individual voters. “We have internal measures to ensure that those who are corrupt are caught,” karangwa remarked.
The chairman was speaking with members of the political forum who are entitled to nominate four senators, the talks were in inline with NEC’s awareness process in before voting kicks off 26 November. Normally the political party forum plays a role in monitoring the election process.
What’s unique, the Rwf 500 million amounts to be used in the voting process will come from the government coffers.
Normally the senate is made up of 26 seats of which 12 represent various provinces while eight are appointed by the President, four by the political party forum, and finally two come both the private and government institutions
The eligible voters are electoral colleagues from both the district and sector advisory councils while senators representing higher learning institutions from both public and private will be voted by their fellow lectures.
Finally, senatorial aspirants must first have to be a Rwandan citizen aged at least 40 years and above and should have a minimum academic qualification of a university degree.
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