Johnathan Paoli
The African Congress for Transformation (ACT), the Labour Party (LP) and the Afrikan Alliance of Social Democrats (AASD) have asked the Con Court to reverse their decision not to extend the deadline for political parties to submit missing candidate names and information.
The parties approached the country’s apex court on Wednesday saying that their exclusion would deny the parties’ right to vote for a political party they chose, as well as the right of the candidates to stand for office.
The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) set 5pm March 8 as the cut-off point for political parties to submit their party candidate lists with the provision that those who did not meet it would be ineligible to participate. This decision was made in terms of section 27 of the Electoral Act.
Now legal teams for the parties have argued that their failure to meet the deadline was due to
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