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Herman Mashaba.
Rosetta Msimango, City Press
- Herman Mashaba returns to the drawing board after his appeal to the IEC was rejected.
- The commission has expelled AThe candidacy of ction SA for the status of a political party.
- Mashaba has now approached the legal team of Action SA.
The Electoral Commission of SA (IEC) has rejected an offer from Action SA of Herman Mashaba to register as a political party.
Action SA’s initial registration application was rejected by the IEC’s electoral director, Sy Mamabolo, due to a perceived similarity to another political party and the use of the South African flag in its logo.
Party of Action, which shares the same colors as Action SA, objected.
But Action SA appealed the decision and the IEC was said to have informed Action SA on Monday that the appeal failed.
In reaction to the decision, Action SA said it was surprised by the rationale for the commission.
The newcomers added that he was concerned that a Chapter 9 institution tasked with safeguarding electoral democracy might make an important legal decision that way.
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He described the decision-making process as flawed and questioned how the commission could correctly analyze “the subjective question of similarities” when it “did not correctly state the objective question of law.”
Mashaba added that Action SA was consulting his legal team on studying the commission’s reasons for maintaining the rejection of his request for political party status.
Mashaba also said that Action SA’s offer to have its marketing team present a professional perspective on the difference between its logo and Party of Action’s was not accepted by the commission.
“We are of the opinion that any effort to alter the logo would likely produce a similar problem, precisely because there are more than 600 political parties, a situation caused by the IEC’s failure to terminate parties in accordance with its own regulations, which are not represented and not attend the general elections “.
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