Cape Town - An application challenging the exclusion of independent candidates from contesting elections may end in the postponement of the upcoming elections. The application before the Western Cape High Court was brought by the New Nation Movement NPC. It wants the court to declare the Electoral Act unconstitutional.“My instruction is, if the order can’t be made then an urgent application will be made to postpone the elections. This matter contends the mechanism used to choose government.
Judge Siraj Desai expressed his concern over the impact his order may make. He also raised the short time he had to make an order. He said that if Judge Desai ruled in the applicant’s favour then the matter would be fast-tracked to the Constitutional Court.