Sierra Leone is to drop its current voting system and return to proportional representation, the president has decreed.
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But the main opposition All People’s Congress (APC) party is considering mounting a legal challenge, according to representative Sidi Yahya Tunis, who called the president's decision "ill-advised".
In 1996, when multiparty democracy was reintroduced and with the civil war raging at the time, the country conducted its parliamentary elections under a proportional representation system.
MPs got elected based on the percentage of the popular vote their parties received nationwide - as long as they received at least more than 5%.
In 2002, Sierra Leone introduced single-member constituencies with MPs elected on a -first-past-the-post basis.
Making the announcement on Friday, top electoral commissioner Mohamed Konneh said the decision to go back to the earlier PR system followed a presidential directive in accordance with the country’s constitution.
He said because the country’s constituency boundaries had expired and could not be re-drawn within the constitutionally stated period ahead of the next election “the boundary delimitation exercise which had commenced is halted with immediate effect”.
