ActionSA files application to challenge IEC ballot omission
ActionSA says it's filed an urgent application with the electoral court over the omission of the party's name on the ballot papers for the municipal elections.
The Independent Electoral Commission's (IEC) final draft ballot papers only contain the party's logo.
"The commission must without deal include the name of the applicant and destroy those ballot papers that have been printed in the interim," ActionSA's lawyer Wendell Bloom said during a press briefing on Wednesday.
"We are saying that the decision to exclude ActionSA from the ballot papers is inconsistent with Section 19 and Section 190 of the Constitution as well as Section 15 of the Electoral Commission Act and is an irrational decision and we say as is the constitutional rights of ActionSA are being violated."
ActionSA leader Herman Mashaba accused the IEC of trying to sabotage the party.
"I take this to be a deliberate effort by the IEC to frustrate our efforts to participate in this elections. But I would want to reassure people of this country, South Africans, that as ActionSA one of our core values is the rule of law. There is just no way that we are going to allow anyone to trample on our rights as South Africans to participate in elections."
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