The country's apex court on Monday dismissed the DA’s bid to declare the reopening of the registration process as unlawful, unconstitutional and invalid.
Independent Electoral Commission's CEO, Sy Mamabolo says the will continue to discharge its responsibilities, with any decisions rooted in the constitution. .The IEC welcomed the Constitutional Court judgment in its favour on Monday, declaring the reopening of local government election candidates registration as lawful.
The EFF and the IFP joined the DA’s application after declaring the move as an unfair advantage for the ruling party, which had admitted in subsequently withdrawn court papers that a failure to reopen the registration process would leave it severely hamstrung. “I can only reiterate that from the perspective of the commission, we are very clear that we cannot and will not act in a partial manner. We have done this in the interest of inclusivity and that is to let the voters, who are ultimately stakeholders in an electoral process, to determine the future of the local areas,” she said.
Of these, the number of people registering for the first time was 433,198, or around 25% of the total registration activity. Voters who were re-registering in same or changed voting districts accounted for 1,277,811 applications. Mamabolo said they also welcomed Cogta minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma’s decision to formally gazette November 1 as the official date for the vote.
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