A South African court on Tuesday allowed former president Jacob Zuma to run in May's general elections, overturning a decision by electoral authorities barring him over a previous conviction.
A South African court on Tuesday allowed former president Jacob Zuma to run in May's general elections, overturning a decision by electoral authorities barring him over a previous conviction.
"The decision of the Electoral Commission... is set aside," the court wrote in its ruling seen by AFP.South Africa is to hold general elections on May 29 in what is expected to be the most competitive vote since the advent of democracy in 1994.Banking on his popularity, MK is expected to cut well into the vote share of the already embattled ruling African National Congress -- the ex-president's former political home.
Zuma was sentenced to 15 months in jail in June 2021 after refusing to testify to a panel probing financial corruption and cronyism under his presidency.On Monday, they told the court the sentence did not disqualify the veteran politician as it followed civil rather than criminal proceedings and it had been shortened by a remission.
Some opinion polls put MK at above 10 percent nationwide, a share that would make it the third or fourth political force behind the ANC and the liberal Democratic Alliance.
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