ODM announces new structure ahead of 2017 polls

ODM announces new structure ahead of 2017 polls

The Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) has made public a new administrative structure as it gear towards a projected resolve to govern the country in 2017.

ODM’s Executive Director Oduor Ong’wen said that announced that ODM has completed the process of restructuring so that the party’s architecture conforms to and reinforces the principle of subsidiarity upon which devolution is founded.

Under the new structure, ODM will have the National Party whose highest decision-making organ is the National Delegates Convention (NDC) while the second tier will be the County Party whose highest decision making organ shall be the County Delegates Conference.

To entrench the principle of subsidiarity, ODM’s basic unit shall be the Polling Station where members shall elect the Polling Station Steering Committee (PSSC) while above the Polling Station, there shall be the Sub-Branch at the Ward level which will be managed and coordinated by the Sub-Branch Executive Committee (SBEC).

ODM’s branch, managed by the Branch Executive Committee (BEC), shall be at the Sub-County/Constituency level. All branches shall be linked directly with the National Executive Council (NEC) through the National Secretariat.

At the County level, the branches shall hold an annual County Delegates Conference which shall among other agenda, elect a County Coordinating Committee (CEC).

In order to address historical inequalities inherent in the current NDC composition, the party has restructured the composition of the National Delegates Convention to reflect the party strength across the country.

A Central Committee of the NEC has also been established in order to respond to emerging situations in a timely manner and shall comprise; the Party Leader, the two Deputy Party Leaders, the National Chairman, the Secretary General, the National Treasurer, the National Organizing Secretary, the Secretary for Women Affairs, the Secretary for Youth Affairs and the Secretary for Parliamentary Affairs

But in order to affect these changes, the National Elections Board shall soon convene to announce a comprehensive program for grassroots elections since it has concluded the revision of its Elections and Nominations Rules to accord the new party architecture a framework to make its elections and nominations more democratic, transparent, predictable, fair and credible.

 

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