MK Party Jacob Zuma at the National Results Operation Centre of the IEC in Midrand.
The Constitutional Court has dismissed Jacob Zuma’s new political toy MK Party’s urgent application to halt Friday's National Assembly session to elect a new president.
The ConCourt also ruled that the party failed to justify its delay and lacked merit in its case after claiming vote rigging during the recent national and provincial elections.
“It is not in the interests of justice to grant direct access as the impugned decisions or conduct first arose between 1 and 2 June 2024, to the knowledge of the applicant. However, despite this knowledge, the applicant only launched the application on 10 June 2024. The applicant has failed to show any justification for not bringing this application sooner when it was aware of the constitutional requirement to convene the National Assembly no later than 14 days after the declaration of the election results. In the circumstances, the urgency is thus self-created,” the ConCourt ruled.
The MK Party was told further told: “The applicant has not made out a case for the granting of an interim interdict as it has neither shown that it will suffer irreparable harm if the interdict is not granted, nor that the balance of convenience favours the granting of the interdict. The applicant has also misconstrued the relevant constitutional provisions it seeks to rely on. In addition, the applicant has not adduced facts to establish a prima facie case in respect of the relief it will seek in the main application, in order to sustain an interim interdict pending the main application.”
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