‘The DA has no quarrel with the law’: ANC opposes DA application to intervene in candidate case

ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula says the party will oppose the DA’s bid to intervene in its Electoral Court challenge over disputed candidate nominations ahead of November’s local government elections.

The ANC says it will oppose the Democratic Alliance’s application to intervene in its Electoral Court case over the party’s disputed candidate nominations for the November 4 local government elections.

ANC spokesperson Mahlengi Bhengu said the party had instructed its legal representatives to oppose the DA’s application, arguing that the electoral body was already defending the decision being challenged and that the DA was not a party to that decision.

This comes after the DA approached the Electoral Court seeking to intervene in the ANC’s application concerning the lodgement of its candidates in six municipalities.

The ANC said the DA’s application misrepresented what it was asking the court to do, and who would be affected by the relief it was seeking.