IEC acted 'within the purview of the law' in barring Zuma from elections

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Jacob Zuma,Johannesburg,Politics

IEC acted 'within the purview of the law' in barring Zuma from elections - chief electoral officer

Chief Electoral Officer Sy Mamabolo says the commission will file its answering papers at the Electoral Court on Thursday.

In an affidavit it intends to file in the Electoral Court, the Electoral Commission of South Africa will dispute allegations the uMkhonto weSizwe Party had made in a challenge it lodged before the court. The challenge relates to an IEC decision to uphold objections to Zuma's inclusion on the MK Party's parliamentary lists on the basis of his criminal record.related to the candidature of the erstwhile president . The commission has maintained that it has acted within the purview of the law and the Constitution and that there is nothing untoward in the manner in which that objection was treated," IEC chief electoral officer Sy Mamabolo said.

 

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