JOHANNESBURG - The Democratic Alliance's Johannesburg mayoral candidate, Hellen Zille said the Constitutional Court judgment makes no sense.
On Thursday, the apex court ruled in the ANC's favour in their matter relating to 181 councillors.
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It ordered the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) to take the necessary steps to include the party’s candidate lists and nominations on the ballot.
The dispute centred on the ANC’s candidate list submissions for six municipalities across KwaZulu-Natal, the Free State and the Eastern Cape.
The party argued that it had met the submission deadline but that a technical problem with the commission’s online system had prevented its lists from being properly captured and processed.
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In September, the ANC approached the Electoral Court, arguing that the system failure had prevented the successful submission of its candidate lists.
"I will have to read the judgment to understand the logic," said Zille. She said, from the outside, "it appears as if the rules do not apply to the ANC."
She added that this would put the IEC under impossible logistic constraints. On Wednesday, the IEC announced that they had printed about 66% of the ballot papers needed for the elections.
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They had hoped production of the ballot papers to be completed by Sunday 18 October.
Zille said the Constitutional Court's decisions have been incomprehensible to her.
"Nevertheless, we live in a Constitutional democracy and we will abide," she said. She said it creates a "terrible" precedent around the rules governing elections.