The Electoral Amendment Bill will now allow independent candidates to stand in provincial and national elections.
CAPE TOWN - President Cyril Ramaphosa has signed the Electoral Amendment Bill into law, which will now allow independent candidates to stand in provincial and national elections.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has signed the Electoral Amendment Bill into law. This means independent candidates will now be able to stand in next year's provincial and national elections. LD After a legal challenge mounted by the New Nation Movement, the Constitutional Court declared the electoral law unconstitutional for only allowing political parties to be represented in provincial and national legislatures.
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