The inspection process of material used in the National Assembly Elections kicked off at the Electoral Commission of Namibia headquarters in Windhoek this morning.

The inspection comes after an Electoral Court ruling, ordering that the material be inspected over a period of two days that is the 18th and 19th of December.

The Electoral Court ordered the inspection after IPC and LPM raised concerns over alleged irregularities in the national election of November 27th.

 "It is basically us executing or complying with what the court has ordered in terms of a settlement agreement availing statistics and information and documents that the political parties in question have requested. The commission remains committed to its core values of transparency, and that is why we are undertaking this process."

The ruling allows opposition parties to access election data.

"So, it is just availing information and documents and statistics, and it was made very clear if you attended court on Friday that the material, such as ballot papers, is not going to be opened because there is no court order to that effect. So what is happening is just the commission availing information that was used in the collating of the results that was announced. The parties specifically requested statistics in terms of the total numbers that have been counted, the total number of rejected votes, and also statistics of voters who voted outside their constituencies; there are obviously certain administrative forms where these data are recorded. Although the application was brought before the electoral court from IPC and LPM, an invitation was extended to all other political parties that took place in the national assembly election because of the interest they had when the election took place."