Last instance body dealing with electoral disputes

Electoral Act 2006, 94 (b)

An election petition may bepresented to the High Court by

one or more of thefollowing persons—

(b) a person claiming tohave had a right to be nominated as a candidate or elected at the election towhich the election petition relates;

http://aceproject.org/regions-en/eisa/ZM/Electoral%20%20Act%202006.pdf

EU 2011 EOM Report, pg 12

There have been no formal complaints from politicalparties on candidate registration, however, with the short time window,challenges in the case of errors or against any rejected nominations werewithout remedy short of an election petition after the poll.

http://www.eueom.eu/files/pressreleases/english/eueom_zambia_final_report_en.pdf

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EU2011 EOM Report, pg 11

Although the right to freedom of association is recognised by Article 21(1) of the constitution and an individual is at liberty to form or be a memberof a political party, there is no specific law on their registration orstructures.4 This leads to an absence of clear obligations on the parties tomaintain internal democracy and a lack of transparency in their activities.Political parties register under the Societies Act, which involves a minimalannual return to the Registrar of Societies .http://www.eueom.eu/files/pressreleases/english/eueom_zambia_final_report_en.pdf