Julius Malema has recommended before the IEC inquiry that the local government elections be postponed to April next year.The red berets said if the commission decided to proceed with the elections, voters would not comply with the lockdown regulations.
The EFF president was making his oral submissions before former deputy chief justice Dikgang Moseneke's inquiry into free and fair elections during Covid-19 on Friday.Behind the brain of the lockdown is not because the elections must be postponed. It must be that you enjoy power for the next five years without being held accountable. And even if you want to do that through picket lines and protests, it's practically impossible.
“We ask that the elections be postponed to April because by end of October there be some sense of clarity in terms of vaccination in terms of the behavioral patterns of the pandemic and even then if the situation is not what we expected we can still postpone until we are all guaranteed that it is safe,” Malema said.The party said if the electoral commission decided to proceed with elections, voters would not comply with the lockdown regulations.
The party’s leader said there was a threat to life and compared the matter to a “war-like situation”. The party told the commission that holding elections under any lockdown level, whether one or two, would still not answer questions of elections being free and fair.“Yes, the pandemic is not going anywhere. But if we vaccinate the majority of our people we’ll be able to open the country and we’ll live with this pandemic, the same way we living with flu. We can’t close the country because there’s flu. We’ve learned to live with it. So even this pandemic we’re going to learn to live with it.
Malema said the emphasis was not on what happened on election day, but what happened prior the to election day. He said what constituted the core of the elections was rallies, campaigns, motorcades, and community meetings that had to take place.
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