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25 May 2012
   
 
 
Article by: Sapa
 
 
 

The Independent Electoral Commission will oppose an urgent application by the ANC against the use of the name Congress of the People, SABC news reported on Wednesday.

The African National Congress' interdict against Cope, led by former ANC veteran Terror Lekota, will be heard in the Pretoria High Court on Wednesday next week.

This will be less than a week before Cope's planned launch date of December 16.

In her answering affidavit to the application, IEC chief electoral officer Pansy Tlakula said she had not yet made a decision on Cope's application to be registered as a political party.

Tlakula said the Electoral Act gave her exclusive jurisdiction to decide on the application.

The ANC is arguing that the Congress of the People in 1955 was a "seminal, historical event" organised by the ANC and its congress alliance partners.

The Freedom Charter was adopted at this event.

 

 

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