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In 2020, the department has undertaken systematic research on dominant electoral and discursive strategies deployed by contending parties during the campaigning period leading up to the parliamentary election of October 04, 2020. The overall analysis indicated that parties continue employing a varying configuration of electoral clientelistic strategies and established that the proclivity amongst parties for large-scale vote-buying practices, unseen in previous electoral cycles, could be potentially explained with a close association of 鈥榲ote-buying鈥 parties with the ruling regime. The tendency to buy votes also seems to be reinforced by the party strategy to recruit prominent politicians possessing considerable political and financial resources and capable of distributing patronage benefits.听
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