The High Court has directed Political Parties to use their own registers to conduct primaries for the August General Election.
In the interim orders by Justice George Odunga, the court said parties do not have to depend on the Integrated Political Parties Management System digital register provided by the Registrar of Political Parties.
Justice Odunga also gave the parties authority to use alternative means to conduct the nominations.
The court ordered the Attorney General, the Registrar of Political Parties, ICT Cabinet Secretary and the electoral agency to file responses to the petition within ten days.
The order will remain in force, pending the hearing and determination.
The order comes after a case filed by the Centre For Minority Rights Development, an non-governmental organization who argued that digital platform provided by the Registrar of Political Parties discriminates against minorities and indigenous people.
According to the group, Kenyan minority groups have no access to technology and the integration of the services to an online of the services to an online platform has limited their way to participate in governance.
According to Registrar of Political Parties, the online system enables resignation and cross-party mitigation, it has been criticized for being slow and inefficient.
The case will be mentioned on March 2.