African leaders, put out by critical reports issued  the continental legislators, brought them in under the African Union umbrella.

The Pan African Parliament sent observer teams to Angola, Swaziland and Zimbabwe.

Their reports differed from those of their AU colleagues. So in 2008, the continental body brought them heel.

This year PAP members will join the AU observer teams in Kenya, Senegal, Gabon, Rwanda and Angola.

But the  PAP official in charge of documentation Galal Nassir says it won’t always  be this way.

(take in PAP clip here)

Nassir says the PAP would like to see election observer teams headed by an MP rather than by a  former head of state as the AU does.

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