ActionSA is heading to the Electoral Court to challenge the IEC’s decision to include its logo but not its name on the ballot paper ahead of municipal polls.
He said ActionSA did not expect the IEC to be an extension of Luthuli House.
”The IEC must actually desist from being an extension of Luthuli House, it must be an Independent Electoral Commission looking not after the interests of political parties but after the interests of South African voters,” Mashaba explained. According to ActionSA’s Johannesburg mayoral candidate, there has been a pattern in the IEC’s conduct against the party.
”It is for that reason we are convinced this is a concerted effort by the IEC to sabotage our participation in these upcoming elections. But I want to assure and reassure South Africans that we are going to participate in these upcoming local government elections, and we are not going to participate as a logo. We are going to participate as ActionSA,” he added.
ActionSA Leader Herman Mashaba, flanked by the party's legal team on challenging the IEC's decision to only include the party's logo but not the name on the ballot papers ahead of the local government elections. VIDEO: Loyiso Sidimba/IOL Politics
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