By Simon Nare
The ANC has filed urgent papers in the Constitutional Court seeking to overturn the Electoral Court’s ruling that excluded 181 of its candidates in six municipalities after the party missed the deadline to submit its candidate lists for the upcoming local government elections.
ANC Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula filed the papers, asking the apex court to urgently intervene in the matter.
The ANC argues that it complied with all the requirements and that all relevant candidate information had been captured on the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) system before the deadline, but a technical glitch prevented the party from pressing the final submission button.
During arguments before the Electoral Court, the ANC’s legal representatives also argued that the requirement to press the submit button was not expressly prescribed by electoral law or regulations.
The party contended that the IEC had therefore relied on an incorrect interpretation of the law
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