THE DA says a bad precedent will be set if the Constitutional Court allows the Independent Electoral Commission’s (IEC) application to postpone the local government elections to next year.
The IEC has filed an urgent application in the Constitutional Court to request that the impending local government elections be postponed.
The electoral commission is proposing that the polls be held on 23 February 2022.
DA leader John Steenhuisen said in a statement that should the IEC persist with its application to the Constitutional Court to have the local government elections postponed to February next year, the DA will ask to be joined as a party to their application so that it can put its views in front of the court and use its status as a respondent to fight for a timeous election and voter registration.
“Through our lawyers we have given the IEC a deadline of tomorrow, Friday 6
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