Electoral Reforms · The story

The Inter-Parties Parliamentary Group (IPPG)

1997 · Multiparty transition

Source date
1997
Event type
Other
Reform area
Election integrity and technology

30-second brief

The essential point

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Before the 1997 general election, the Inter-Parties Parliamentary Group proposed a coordinated reform package. It asked Parliament to adopt three committee reports, convert their proposals into Bills and enact the measures before voters went to the polls.

Evidence: Third IPPG Plenary resolution (official extracted-text bundle)

Why it matters

The official resolution shows committee proposals being organised into a proposed legislative package. It does not establish which Bills passed or what changed in practice.

Evidence: Third IPPG Plenary resolution (official extracted-text bundle)

Open the key points and evidence
  1. The resolution covered peace and security, the electoral code, and minimum constitutional, legal and administrative reforms.

    Third IPPG Plenary resolution (official extracted-text bundle)
  2. It asked the National Assembly to adopt the three committee reports.

    Third IPPG Plenary resolution (official extracted-text bundle)
  3. It empowered the Attorney-General to translate the reports into draft Bills.

    Third IPPG Plenary resolution (official extracted-text bundle)
  4. It called for the resulting Bills to be enacted before the forthcoming general election.

    Third IPPG Plenary resolution (official extracted-text bundle)
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Official-source wording

What the official record says

We, Members attending the Third Plenary of the lnter-parties Parliamentary Group (IPPG) of the Seventh Parliament meeting on the eleventh day of September,"1997 to consider the reports of the Peace and Security Committee, the Electoral Code Committee and the Constitutional, Legal and Administrative Committee regarding minimum reforms before the forthcoming General Elections do hereby urse the National Assembly of Kenya to adopt the reports of the said three Committees through a House Resolution; empower the Attorney-General to translate the reports of the said three committees into draft Bills for presentation to the Narional Assembly before the forthcoming General Elections; recommend that all the four committees of the IPPG continue to work in close collaboration with the Attorney-General's Chambers to ensure that the contents of the Bills are fully cognisant of these recommendations; call upon the National Assembly to ascertain that the respective Bill are enacted into law so as to ensure free and fair elections.

Verbatim excerpt · Third IPPG Plenary resolution (official extracted-text bundle) · Parliament of Kenya — IPPG reports and resolutions

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Sources behind this record

  1. Parliament of Kenya — IPPG reports and resolutionsThird IPPG Plenary resolution (official extracted-text bundle) · Official Kenyan public authority · admitted for public claims