Forty-one peo­ple who were ap­point­ed to serve as Re­turn­ing Of­fi­cers for the April 28, 2025 Gen­er­al Elec­tion re­ceived the Writs of Elec­tion is­sued by Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo. This paves the way for the Re­turn­ing Of­fi­cers to have the au­thor­i­ty to “cause a poll to be tak­en in their re­spec­tive elec­toral dis­tricts on be­half of the Elec­tions and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion (EBC)”.

The Gen­er­al Elec­tion is be­ing held on April 28.

Ac­cord­ing to a state­ment from the EBC yes­ter­day, Chief Elec­tion Of­fi­cer, Fern Nar­cis-Scope com­mend­ed the Re­turn­ing Of­fi­cers and prospec­tive Elec­tion Clerks for their ded­i­ca­tion to the elec­toral process. She high­light­ed the vi­tal role they play in up­hold­ing de­mo­c­ra­t­ic prin­ci­ples, stress­ing that fair­ness and ac­count­abil­i­ty are es­sen­tial in strength­en­ing pub­lic con­fi­dence and en­sur­ing the cred­i­bil­i­ty of free and fair elec­tions. As­sis­tant Chief Elec­tion Of­fi­cer Pamela Ogiste al­so em­pha­sised the theme of Build­ing Bridges and Fos­ter­ing Trust in the Elec­toral Process. She said that elec­tions are the foun­da­tion of democ­ra­cy and that pub­lic con­fi­dence in the sys­tem re­lies not on­ly on the rules and reg­u­la­tions up­held but al­so on the in­tegri­ty, pro­fes­sion­al­ism, and ded­i­ca­tion of those who ad­min­is­ter the process.

The Re­turn­ing Of­fi­cers and prospec­tive Elec­tion Of­fi­cers were al­so giv­en a mo­ti­va­tion­al speech which en­cour­aged them to have a “strong sense of du­ty in up­hold­ing the in­tegri­ty of the elec­toral process.”