DA federal council chairperson Helen Zille has expressed concern about the IEC's handling of the local government elections, saying the party is hoping for “no messing around” from the electoral commission.
“The DA is very ready, we just hope the IEC is ready and we hope that there is no messing around with the MEC7 forms. We will be watching that very, closely,” she said on Saturday.
Just before casting her special vote at Pinelands High School on Saturday, she told journalists: “The IEC had a list of MEC7 forms, those are people who are voting outside the places they are registered. Suddenly that tripled in a very short space of time and we were concerned about that.” “We've seen that with bending over in all sorts of directions to enable the ANC to re-register its candidates when they missed the deadline. No one else is allowed to miss the deadline, only the ANC. That should worry us very much,” she said.
“The yellow party [ANC] can't point to a single government that they have run well in the whole of SA, even though they run 90% of all local authorities,” she said.
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