A group of independent candidates who are arguing that they are being unfairly prevented from contesting elections have had their urgent application to postpone the May 8 elections dismissed by the Constitutional Court.
The candidates argued that the failure of the Independent Electoral Commission’s to allow independent candidates to run in provincial and national elections represents a “massive constitutional crisis”.that IEC lawyer advocate Steven Budlender called the case an “extraordinary attempt to imperil the elections”.
The candidates involved in the case include Khoi leader Chantal Dawn Revell, princess of the Korana Royal Household as well as leader of the New Nation Movement .
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