The court wants the parties’ views, by Tuesday, on whether IEC commissioner Janet Love should have recused herself from the decision on Jacob Zuma’s eligibility
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In essence, it is asking the litigants if a statement by Love in January that Zuma’s criminal record “may impede his candidacy” for parliament in the May elections marred a subsequent decision by the commission that he was ineligible. “If commissioner Love’s participation vitiated the determination by the electoral commission of Mr Zuma’s eligibility, is it open to this court to substitute the determination by the Electoral Commission?”
It prohibits anyone who has been sentenced to 12 or more months in prison without the option of a fine being barred from becoming a member of the National Assembly for five years. The question of Zuma’s eligibility to stand or otherwise, “affects the decision that millions of voters will be asked to make at the ballot box”.
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