Maimane to Challenge IEC in Court

By: Lindelani Mbatha

One South Africa Movement leader Mmusi Maimane says he’s concerned that the postponement of October’s local government election will put the country into deep crisis.

Maimane has been addressing media outside the Constitutional Court, where his party is expected to make formal submissions challenging the postponement of the municipal polls.

The apex court granted SA Movement, the ANC, DA, IFP, African Transformation Movement (ATM), Forum 4 Service Delivery, and the Makana Independent New Deal as intervening parties in the IEC’s application.

The IEC wants the court to declare that holding elections beyond the five-year expiry term of municipal councils is constitutional.

The electoral body partly bases its application on the recommendations on the Dikgang Moseneke report which found that under COVID-19 conditions the municipal elections would not be free and fair.

Maimane says no matter when elections are held, it will be under the COVID 19 pandemic.

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