Currently, SA runs two elections in a five-year cycle: national and provincial, and local government.
MPs had asked the IEC, which was appearing before the National Assembly's home affairs portfolio committee to talk about its readiness for next year's local government elections, to comment on the public debate about having one election.“You are currently elected until 2024. If you elect local government next year for a five-year term, it will not coincide,” she said.
“The idea that you can extend the existing local government administration up until you have the next general elections, to extend it to 2024 or shorten the period of your own term to 2021, is something that would be difficult to do. If you do it once the election has taken place, you will potentially run foul of the constitution.”“Once you take a policy decision, you will have to align the time frames of the national, provincial with the local election.
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