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The Elec­tions and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion (EBC) has re­fut­ed claims of “po­lit­i­cal sab­o­tage” made by All Peo­ple’s Par­ty (APP) leader Kezel Jack­son.

Jack­son raised the is­sue dur­ing a Face­book livestream on Sat­ur­day, al­leg­ing that sev­er­al of her prospec­tive can­di­dates were un­able to file their nom­i­na­tion pa­pers be­cause the EBC failed to pro­vide the nec­es­sary doc­u­men­ta­tion. She specif­i­cal­ly high­light­ed that Sher­wyn Lazarus, her can­di­date for Mal­abar/Mau­si­ca, was de­nied the op­por­tu­ni­ty to sub­mit his pa­pers at Mau­si­ca Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School, de­spite ar­riv­ing around 10 am on Fri­day. Jack­son claimed Lazarus was mis­in­formed about the ab­sence of a nom­i­na­tion ex­er­cise and the Re­turn­ing Of­fi­cer at the lo­ca­tion told him he could not be ac­com­mo­dat­ed af­ter re­turn­ing just af­ter 3 pm.

Jack­son ex­plained that, al­though the par­ty did not take part in the EBC’s mock ex­er­cise on March 25, her chair­man had been li­ais­ing with the EBC ahead of nom­i­na­tion day. She added that while the par­ty had re­ceived forms 38, 39, and 40, they ac­tu­al­ly re­quired form 37 in­stead of 38.