All political parties have accepted the IEC results from South Africa's sixth democratic elections as free and fair, with the 27 smaller parties conceding the outcome. SAElections2019
The 27 smaller political parties – which included Mosiuoa Lekota’s Congress of the People, Mzwanele Manyi’s African Transformation Movement, Hlaudi Motsoeneng’s African Content Movement and the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania – have conceded and accepted the outcome of Wednesday’s national and provincial elections.
“We accept the final results after the briefing by the Statistician-General on the independent audit process in which he revealed that from the 1 020 samples, there was a margin of error of less than a percentage hence it is not enough to influence the outcome seriously.” In total 47 complaints and more than 27 registered political parties had written formal complaints about allegations that there were individuals during Wednesday’s polls who attempted to and/or successfully voted more than once.
The IEC had earlier warned that it would “vigorously oppose any legal action aimed at interfering in the conduct of elections and finalisation and announcement of results”.
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