AFP, 21 July 2013
A wide range of articles based on AFP quote AAN’s Martine van Bijlert on the signing of the electoral law, describing it as a compromise on deeply contentious issues. “So there is a sense of relief, that the process has not remained stalled and that no big tricks have been played,” she told AFP. “Of course, suspicions remain and if politics escalate there may be attempts to sideline or manipulate the various safeguards, but the signing of the two laws does make that more difficult.”
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