For those banking hopes on the proposed new constituency for a part of the Oti Region…
Let me ask: Has Parliament passed the law creating the proposed new constituency in the Oti Region? If not, and where the (proposed) law is not passed before the next Parliament starts...

sitting on 7 January 2021, the outcome, I submit, will be that the new creation will become effective only after the next "dissolution of Parliament" (in January 2025). Please read Article 47(6). It states: "Where the boundaries of a constituency established under this article...

are altered as a result of a review, the alteration shall come into effect upon the next dissolution of Parliament."
Unless my interpretation of these words is wrong, I don't see how any new constituency will be added to the existing number, save where the law creating it is...

passed (to indicate the pendency of an election in the affected area) before the next Parliament starts to seat. I may be wrong. However, I believe the framers of our constitution did not want a situation where a government will, in the middle of its tenure, capriciously cause...

new constituencies to be created with the aim of forcing elections that will give it the Majority of seats in Parliament in situations where it either failed to attain the same at the general elections or got a very slim majority in the election that produced the government...