Electoral Campaigns: Maximising Last Days

This is the last and decisive week for candidates participating in the Regional Elections, to convince the electorate to vote for their list on November 30, 2025 when polling stations will be operational for the purpose. As from today Tuesday November 25, 2025, candidates in the race, whether delegates of divisions or traditional rulers, have five days (till midnight November 29) to roll-out their political manifesto and other envisaged plan of actions to woo the electorate Campaigns officially begun on November 15, as stipulated in Section 87 of the Electoral Code, which says that electoral campaigns shall commence fifteen days preceding the election day and close at midnight on the eve of the polls. Since the launch of campaigns, candidates have been seen organising public meetings to present their political manifestos for their regions, with the aim of attracting voters. Going by the law, the campaign period is two weeks and the first week just elapsed. The second and last week is the moment candidates for the different political parties to fine-tune their final strategies. Usually, the first week serves as a setting base and the second week would be for the improvement of loopholes, all to the benefit of the candidates. It is an indirect universal suffrage election, implying that not every citizen of voting age will participate in the polls. Going by Section 248 of the Electoral Code, delegates of division are elected by municipal councillors and representatives of traditional rulers are elected by their peers, comprising first, second and third degree indigenous traditional rulers whose designation has been approved in accordance with the regulations in force. In addition, it is the time for candidates or their representatives to make ample use of the media time allocated to them by the Minister of Communication, in compliance with existing regulations. Indeed, a Ministerial Order to determine ...