Apex court dismisses appeal by ACT, Labour Party

The African Congress for Transformation will contest the national elections in all nine provinces and for the provincial ballot in six provinces – excluding Limpopo, Mpumalanga and Western Cape – and in one regional ballot in the Western Cape.

The three parties had appealed to the apex court, seeking a second opportunity to register their party candidates. Krister Janse van Rensburg, the Labour Party’s secretariat, said it seemed the court took an easy way out and avoided dealing with the merits of their case. It rather focused on the technical legal aspect of direct access.

Elections analyst Michael Atkins said the most important fact was the ConCourt did not make any decision on the merits of the application.‘35% failure rate is not small’: Labour Party disputes IEC claims that system worked perfectly Atkins said ACT did not complete all of their regional applications. “Those regional ballots count just as much as the national ballots count for the National Assembly,” he said.

Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)

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