{
  "id": 16197455,
  "title": "Ichung’wah defends Elections Bill amid livestreaming controversy",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/23/ichungwah-defends-elections-bill-amid-livestreaming-controversy",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-23T14:43:14.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "People Daily Kenya",
    "slug": "people-daily-kenya",
    "url": "https://peopledaily.digital/news/ichungwah-defends-elections-bill-amid-livestreaming-controversy"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "National Assembly Majority Leader Kimani Ichung’wah has defended proposed changes to Kenya’s electoral laws, saying the Elections (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill, 2024, retains the requirement for the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) to establish a mechanism for livestreaming election results. The debate over livestreaming has intensified following the National Assembly’s…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Capital FM Kenya",
        "title": "Election live-streaming not scrapped in new Bill, Ichung’wah clarifies",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/23/election-live-streaming-not-scrapped-in-new-bill-ichungwah-clarifies",
        "published": "2026-10-23T13:16:51.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}