WHILE the law gives ECZ teeth, we haven’t seen the commission sanctioning political parties, certainly not on many occasions, says Transparency International Zambia. Speaking on Diamond Live, Tuesday TI-Z Executive Director Maurice Nyambe said the organisation would like to see a situation where some candidates were barred from contesting in an election once they violated provisions of the law. “When it comes to the issue of campaign financing, we think that the teeth that the law gives to government, to ECZ, because the law gives ECZ teeth, but I don’t think that we have seen the ECZ, certainly not on many occasions, we’ve not seen them really sanctioning political parties. For example, what we would like to see is that...

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