Should the bill be passed in the form it was sent to the President by two-thirds majority votes in both chambers, the bill automatically becomes a law even without the signature of the President.
He said that it was conventionally rational, strategic and fundamental to seek the opinion of the commission and other critical agencies in the electoral matrix before a new legal framework becomes law. “The President has requested the commission and other critical national institutions to revert with detailed and considered views indicating whether or not the President should assent to the bill.
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