National Assembly Speaker Justin Muturi wants the election of the president and governors by universal suffrage abolished, with Kenyans instead required to vote for political parties.
The winning party, he reckons, should then go ahead to nominate persons to the key executive offices after the General Election.
Mr Muturi is also pushing for the removal of constituency boundaries, with Kenyans only voting for parties and each MP representing between 150,000 and 200,000 people.
In his presentation to the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) team, Mr Muturi said the requirement that Kenyans directly elect leaders had become a source of strife.
“In order to build a bridge that allows us to transcend the pitfalls of heavily contested presidential elections, it is proposed to remove election of the president by universal suffrage. Instead, the popular will of the people manifested through one man one vote should be actuated through the nomination of the president by the party that garners majority votes at the General Election,” Mr Muturi told the BBI team.
On governors, the Speaker wants each party to nominate three people qualified to hold office and send the names to the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) before the polls.
“Upon pronouncement of results of a General Election, the chairperson of IEBC shall forward for each county the name of one person nominated by the political party with the majority of votes at the county level, to the Speaker of Senate for approval consideration by the Senate,” Mr Muturi said.
If approved, the person shall be gazetted as governor and should nominate a person of the opposite gender as deputy governor.
If a name is rejected, Mr Muturi proposes, the IEBC should forward the second name in the list within three days for consideration.