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Parliament has less than two weeks left to meet the Constitutional Court deadline to amend the Electoral Act to make provisions for independent candidates to participate in National and Provincial elections.

File Photo: An election official empties a ballot box as counting begins after polls closed in Alexandra township in Johannesburg.File Photo: An election official empties a ballot box as counting begins after polls closed in Alexandra township in Johannesburg.Constitutional Court deadline to amend the Electoral ActThe Constitutional Court has yet to make a decision on the National Legislature’s application for a six month extension.

In June 2020, Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga declared the Electoral Act unconstitutional to the extent that it requires that adult citizens may be elected to the National Assembly and Provincial Legislatures only through their membership of political parties. The suspension of unconstitutionality will lapse soon, two years after the court made the declaration.

 

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