The Democratic Alliance says it will legally challenge the Independent Electoral Commission’s amended timetable in court.
This comes after the commission is set to reopen the candidate list for the 2021 municipal elections.
DA Federal Council Chairperson Helen Zille says they do not believe the upcoming local government elections are free and fair.
“The latest developments actually underscore that my suspicions and my speculations were right from the start. They were entirely correct. The ANC withdrew its appeal to the Electoral Court because they had another plan. We certainly don’t believe that the elections are free and fair if there’s one rule for every other party but the ANC and if the IEC or anybody else bends the rules to fit the ANC’s circumstances, that is not our definition of free and fair.”
“The two are clearly distinct from each other. There had been no prior weekend dedicated to voter registration,
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