The city’s Catherine Overmeyer, operations manager responsible for urban management, said the city’s rules for posters during voter registration, general elections and by election processes only catered for posters and not for banners, apply during an official election period and outside that period, standard “Outdoor Advertising and Signage Bylaw rules and fees” would be applicable.
The display of banners on city light poles for political parties to encourage the public to “vote for” a particular political party were not permitted on the city’s light poles, another city official said in an e-mail sent to the party. The EFF did not abide with the city’s request, refused to remove the banners and approached the court. It argued that section 19 of the constitution affords citizens, and by extension political parties, the rightEFF had not only established a prima facie right, but a clear right.
The court said the operation of the bylaw was subsidiary in nature and its operation is only interfered with for a short period of time.
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