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New Nation Movement calls for May elections to be postponed

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The New Nation Movement is calling for the May 8 elections to be postponed.

The party is heading to the Constitutional Court, to appeal the dismissal of their application to stand as independent candidates in the upcoming elections.

The Movement’s coordinator Bulelani Mkohliswa says the elections will not be fair without this matter being put to bed.

Judge Siraj Desai on Wednesday dismissed their application without a cost order.

Legislation prescribes that in national and provincial elections, South Africans can only vote for a political party and not individual candidates.

The Movement was seeking to change the current Electoral Act to allow South Africans to vote for independent candidates.

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