The names of political parties that are de-registered by the Election Officer will be made know once the order is gazetted.

This information was revealed  by the Electoral Office confirming that political parties that failed to meet requirements of the Political Parties Registration Act are set to be de-registered.

Under the Act, the Electoral Office and Electoral Commission have the authority to carry out this process.

Following the snap election held on 16 January this year, the Electoral Office began assessing which political parties did not meet the Act’s requirements. Based on the results from that election, the Office has begin formal de-registration procedures.

Principal Electoral Officer, Mr. Guilain Malessas, confirmed that the process of de-registration is already in motion.

“From the recent snap election, we did an assessment of the vote counts and identified that some parties did not meet the threshold set by the Commission in a 2024 order. The threshold is 1,000 votes, and we need to comply with this in order to begin de-registration,” he said.

Mr. Malessas added that the process has followed all required legal steps, and the Electoral Office is now waiting for the official gazette notice before publicly releasing the names of the parties that are removed from the registry.

“We’ve already issued two notices. If a party didn’t respond to the first, we sent a second. Even if they did respond, de-registration still goes ahead,” he explained.

With four provincial and municipal elections coming up, this move will affect some parties that are set to be de-registered. These parties will not be allowed to contest under their party name, but may still run as independents.

Once the gazette notice is issued, the Electoral Office will publicly announce the names of the de-registered political parties.