Chapter 6 Electoral Integrity and Democratic Consolidation
In: Democracy and Electoral Politics in Zambia
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Biggie Joe Ndambwa
Biggie Joe Ndambwa
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Abstract
The chapter explores the quality of election management in Zambia’s 2016 elections with a view to identifying the ingredients of credibility in future elections and underlying factors that could drive democratic consolidation. The chapter reveals challenges in the enforcement of some electoral regulations. The chapter also discovered that lack effective aggregation of election results affected the integrity of elections and acceptability of results by some stakeholders. It also revealed that integrity of the electoral process was affected by lack of effective legal remedies for losing parties and candidates.