TI-Z has been monitoring the 2021 general elections through its elections project and has been sharing concerns with key stakeholders and voters throughout the process. From the very beginning, we have noted and condemned violence perpetrated by both PF and UPND, and we have been urging the leadership of these political parties to tame violence....Continue Reading

Through our network of monitors currently undertaking Parallel Vote Tabulation (PVT), we have been alerted to ploys involving electoral officials such as Returning Officers to manipulate the process of totaling of results at Constituency Totaling Centres.  We have information that the Returning Officers at some named constituencies in Northwestern Province and Luapula Province have asked...Continue Reading

Greetings fellow citizens and I welcome you all to yet another of our weekly updates from Transparency International Zambia (TI-Z)’s 2021 Elections Project.As we have been stating since the beginning of these updates, our motive for sharing the different observations we are making in the electoral process is to give members of the public and...Continue Reading

Good morning fellow citizens and welcome to this 9th update from Transparency InternationalZambia (TI-Z)’s 2021 Elections Project.As you may have noted, each of our updates thus far has primarily focused on three key issuesthat we will have observed in the electoral process for a particular week, which has in somecases entailed that we were responding...Continue Reading