Concourt Asks For Submissions

Johnathan Paoli

THE Constitutional Court has asked all three parties including former president Jacob Zuma, the uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party and the Independent Electoral Commission to put in writing their argument regarding Electoral Commissioner Janet Love’s statement about Zuma’s eligibility to stand for election.

In a request made on Monday, the Con Court asked the parties to make written submissions of not more than 20 pages. This takes place in the middle of the IEC’s appeal against the Electoral Court’s ruling that Jacob Zuma would be allowed to stand as a candidate and possibly become the country’s next president

Top of the list is Love’s remarks made during a press conference in January when she stated that Zuma would not be eligible to be a candidate on the MK Party’s parliamentary list because he had been sentenced to 15 months in prison for contempt of court.

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