Complainants allege that last week’s ruling, which paved the way for President Joko Widodo’s 36-year-old son to run in next year’s election, was politically motivated.
Justice Sinha observed that the High Court is facing an unprecedented situation where candidate were forcibly prevented, threatened and obstructed from submitting their nominations within time.
The Calcutta High Court has observed that election of candidates uncontested has a detrimental impact on the right to choice afforded to voters of an electorate. A single-judge bench of Justice Amrita.
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They are taking place in the context of former minister Sydney Mufamadi’s testimony to the Zondo Commission that during the Zuma era, the State Security Agency set aside millions to buy off judges hearing matters involving former president Jacob Zuma.
And they are taking place in the context of an imbroglio revolving around Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng’s public criticism of South Africa’s relationship with Israel: comments for which he has been ordered to apologise by the Judicial Conduct Committee and thus far refuses to comply.
Little wonder, then, that there appeared to be tension in the air at the interviews to fill two vacancies on the Constitutional Court this week, with questions heavy with subtext.