A group of African Transformation Movement (ATM) breakaway members have written to the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) to demand that it de-register the party, claiming it was registered by the current leadership fraudulently.
A breakaway group met in Cape Town this week, where it took a resolution to de-register the party ahead of the election and seek corporation with the African National Congress (ANC).
The leaders of the breakaway group say that the ATM was registered under the constitution of its organisation, the African Transformation Congress (ATC). They say the ATM, which was supposed to have been the political desk of the ATC, has no constitution and therefore, was not supposed to have been registered as a party.
The ATM has since released a statement rubbishing these claims.
Party president Vuyolwethu Zungula says that there is nothing that will stop the ATM from contesting these elections as it is a registered party that is already on the ballot paper. Zungula says that he does not know what the breakaway group means when they say the current ATM leaders are registered fraudulently.
“There is only one leadership of the party. The person who was responsible to register the party with the IEC was myself; there’s never been a leadership change from a presidential level.”
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