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Ramaphosa أخبار

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The DA’s lawyer says Ramaphosa violated the Electoral Act and the Electoral Code of Conduct.

The legal counsel for the Democratic Alliance has sought to establish the jurisdiction of the Electoral Court in the party’s challenge ofThe DA argues that the President violated the Electoral Act and the Electoral Code of Conduct when he allegedly used the address to garner votes for the African National Congress .

It adds that Ramaphosa abused his status as Head of State and public funds to influence the outcome of the May 29 elections. The former opposition party’s lawyer, Advocate Anthony Stein says, “In the case of an electoral period where there’s an election under way, firstly the court has jurisdiction. The only question is whether the court has direct jurisdiction or whether a litigant has direct access and we say, for two fundamental reasons, it is.”

“The first fundamental reason is that this is an electoral period and that in view of the circumstances in which this case is brought, it would not be possible to question like this adjudicated first by the high court and then by this court.” Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies.

 

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