High Court nullifies southern local authority election results

High Court nullifies southern local authority election results …ECN ordered to meet parties rerun costs

High Court nullifies southern local authority election results …ECN ordered to meet parties rerun costs

Andrew Kathindi The High Court today, declared that the results for Aroab, Koës, Stampriet local authorities and Mariental Rural constituency are null and void and set aside. The High Court further dismissed the Landless People’s Movement (LPM) urgent application to oppose the Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN)’s case to have the results of those local authorities and rural constituency nullified, after finding irregularities in the way in which the elections had been conducted. Judge Shafimana Ueitele however ordered that ECN should carry the cost for political parties to participate in the rerun of the polls. “The Electoral Commission of Namibia…
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