Kenya dispatch: Electoral Commission pushes back against court bid to force boundary review before 2027 polls

Kenya dispatch: Electoral Commission pushes back against court bid to force boundary review before 2027 polls

Last month, Kenya’s Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) asked the High Court to dismiss a petition by lawyer Felix Kiton and others seeking to compel it to conduct electoral boundary delimitation ahead of the 2027 general election, intensifying the legal and constitutional debate around representation and electoral preparedness. The commission’s position that it will not undertake a comprehensive review of constituency and war…