JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Previous President Jacob Zuma threatened Saturday to take legal action looking for to stop the statement of South Africa’s election results as set up Sunday, requiring that accusations of vote-rigging made by his celebration be attended to initially.
Zuma spoke after his celebration revealed that it was looking for a re-run of the elections, stating it had actually sent proof to the Independent Electoral Commission showing its accusations of extensive abnormalities.
Zuma’s uMkhonto weSizwe Celebration has actually become the 3rd greatest political celebration, with 99% of the votes counted in South Africa’s extremely objected to election. The governing African National Congress lost its parliamentary bulk for the very first time considering that it entered into power after completion of apartheid in 1994.
Zuma did not elaborate on the information and nature of the vote-rigging accusations, however his celebration’s authorities stated they consist of accusations that the electoral body’s IT system had actually been damaged when it had technical problems Saturday.
“We are going to require the time. No one needs to state tomorrow, no. If that occurs, individuals will provoke us due to the fact that we understand what they are doing,” Zuma stated.
“We are not thinking, we understand. And why should they hurry? I am hoping whoever is accountable is hearing what we are stating.”
He stated authorities need to provide political celebrations a possibility to provide their cases declaring vote abnormalities.
In action to the accusations, the electoral body stated it had actually gotten an overall of 579 objections from citizens and political celebrations. It stated it would attend to all the grievances and it was prepared to state the main election results Sunday as set up.