Time to make proper provision for all Electoral Candidates
Electoral Amendment Bill under consideration ignores the Constitutional Court directive for Parliament to pass a law to include independent candidates in all our legislative bodies CAPE TOWN – When the current fighting over the appropriate scope of the legislation to include independent candidates into all our legislative bodies stops, Parliament and civil society organisations […]
(READ) – DOCUMENT : OPINION for INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE ASSOCIATION on CONSTITUTIONALITY OF ELECTORAL AMENDMENT BILL: THE PROPORTIONALITY REQUIREMENT
Click the below link to Read the Document: OPINION for INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE ASSOCIATION on CONSTITUTIONALITY OF ELECTORAL AMENDMENT BILL: THE PROPORTIONALITY REQUIREMENT CLICK HERE: https://bit.ly/3JQzhQD The above document is an attachment to the Submission document Handed to Parliament: https://icasouthafrica.org/716-2/
MEDIA STATEMENT: HOME AFFAIRS COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS THAT PARLIAMENT REQUEST EXTENSION ON AMENDMENT TO ELECTORAL ACT
Parliament, Tuesday, 15 February 2022 – The Portfolio Committee on Home Affairs today resolved to recommend that Parliament apply to the Constitutional Court for an extension on an order to remedy the unconstitutionality of the Electoral Act 73 of 1998. Following the June 2020 Constitutional Court judgement on the New Nation Movement NPC and Others v President […]
Court battle on cards in pursuit of electoral reform, petition launched
READ THE ARTICLE HERE: https://bit.ly/3rMI3co With just six months left of the two-year deadline government was given by the Constitutional Court to amend the Electoral Act to accommodate independent candidates, a showdown is looming between government and independent organisations which promote direct democracy in South Africa. Dr Michael Louis, a Christian marketplace leader who was […]