The ConCourt has ruled against the amendment of the election timetable by the IEC for the upcoming elections on 29 May.
ACT appears on the IEC’s national and regional candidate lists, but it missed the deadline for inclusion in other regions.The Constitutional Court has dismissed the African Congress for Transformation , Labour Party of South Africa and Afrikan Alliance of Social Democrats’ application to contest the elections.
The ruling comes after the three parties approached the apex court in an attempt to get another chance at registering their party candidates. Magashule’s ACT wants IEC to give it ‘an hour or two’ to submit candidates list rather than postponing elections The parties claimed the IEC’s online portal for submission of political parties’ candidate lists malfunctioned and prohibited compliance with section 27 of the Electoral Act 73 of 1998.BREAKING NEWS: The Constitutional Court has ruled that three parties will be excluded from the ballot paper of the 2024 elections. They are the newly formed Labour Party, the Afrikan Alliance of Social Democrats and the African Congress for Transformation.
However, he revealed that ACT only wanted “an hour or two” for the IEC to reopen its online portal to submit outstanding documents to the IEC and only resort to postponing the elections as the last measure.Advocate Chris Loxton, representing the Labour Party, argued that the IEC’s contention that its online candidate nomination system functioned without any mishaps because other parties were able to upload the required information did not hold water.
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