If the confusion over what electoral system will be followed when SA goes for the watershed national and provincial elections in 2024 is not resolved, the country will be plunged into unprecedented chaos.
This is the view of the body responsible for organising and managing elections in the country, the Electoral Commission of SA .
The event, convened in Braamfontein on Friday, was seized with questions of how to reform the country’s elections to take the power back to the voter and have a system that allows for public representatives to be held accountable. “All we are saying to you as civil society, you need to figure out how on the one hand to insulate what the constitution requires for regular elections 2024 from what will become chaos if there is no clarity by December [2022].
IEC chief electoral officer Sy Mamabolo told the gathering the IEC will need an uninterrupted 18 months to prepare for credible elections, with the 2024 polls set to be held any time between May and August of that year.
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