The African Christian Democratic Party will on Monday approach the Constitutional Court over a ruling that disqualified it from contesting the local government elections in Cape Town.
ACDP spokesperson Steve Swart said on Saturday the party will file the application ”as a matter of urgency in order to render it unnecessary to seek a postponement of the local government elections”.
He said party candidates will in the meantime continue campaigning in the Cape Town metropole.
The ACDP was disqualified from contesting the March 1 elections by the Independent Electoral Commission after it did not include the metropole when it paid its election fees.
The ACDP, the third largest in the Cape Town city council, then approached the Electoral Court seeking to be allowed to contest the 105 wards in the city.
The court on Wednesday ruled to uphold the decision to bar the party from the elections.
Swart said the dispute relates only to the Cape Town metropole and that the party is not disqualified from contesting other municipalities in the country. — Sapa