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DA to announce its mayoral candidates

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The Democratic Alliance will announce its mayoral candidates for Local Government Elections at Gqeberha on Monday.

The party says the candidates who will contest in different cities across the country were chosen after a thorough selection process that took almost two years, which included candidate testing and independent assessment.

The announcement will be made by party leader John Steenhuisen and he will be joined by the Federal Chairperson of the DA, Dr. Ivan Meyer, and the party’s National Spokesperson Siviwe Gwarube.

In the related video below, the DA said postponing the elections would create a Constitutional crisis: 

IEC says holding elections in October presents serious legal, political risks

Lawyers for the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) say it is not possible to have free, fair and safe elections by November 1 this year.

Lawyer for the Electoral Commission Wim Trengove told the Constitutional Court that there are serious legal and political risks presented by holding the Local Government Elections in October.

The IEC insists that a free, fair and safe election is impossible this year and should be postponed to February 2022.

The IEC has also argued that holding the elections this year will privilege well-resourced parties like the Democratic Alliance (DA) which can continue campaigning electronically, thus rending the polls unfair.

“The elections will be vulnerable to being overturned and in fact, if the elections are not free and fair, they are unconstitutional and must be overturned. But the consequences would not be limited to the legal, they would also have social and political consequences. If the elections are not free and fair, then they would not have credibility. Society would not respect the outcome,” says Trengove.

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