New Nation Movement goes to Concourt to halt elections
The non-partisan New Nation Movement says it will not back down in its bid to have the May elections halted and has decided to take their fight to the Constitutional Court. Earlier this week the movement filed an urgent court application, but Judge Siraj Desai dismissed the application at the Western Cape High Court with no order as to costs, saying the court did not find it justifiable to intervene in parliamentary processes.
“In this instance, it does not appear to be justifiable for this court to intervene,” Judge Desai said. It was argued that the closed-party list system has the effect that the political parties choose their representatives and not the electorate.
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