On June 11, 2020, the Constitutional Court delivered judgment in favour of the New Nation Movement and others that the Electoral Act (No.73 of 1998) was unconstitutional.
The thrust of the argument was that this Act stated that people could only contest elections as members of political parties. This excluded those who might have wanted to contest the elections as individuals or as “independent candidates.” Parliament was instructed to correct this anomaly.
In response to this judgment, and