Dar es Salaam — The Tanganyika Law Society plans to go to court later this month to challenge Section 44 of the 1985 Election Act allowing a candidate to be declared winner on being unopposed.
According to the TLS president, Mr Francis Stolla, lawyers from the association were putting final touches to the petition before it is filed later this month.He said the association wanted Section 44 of the Election Act to be repealed since it denied voters their primary right of choosing their leaders.
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