A GROUP of disgruntled Swapo members from the Hardap region will not be allowed to have lawyers present at a hearing this week to address vote rigging allegations emanating from recent regional and district elections.
The hearing is set for tomorrow and Thursday at the party’s headquarters in Windhoek.
Swapo’s lawyer, Dirk Conradie, in a letter to the group’s lawyer, Boris Isaacks, stated “this is an internal hearing of the party and no room for legal representatives (sic)”. The disgruntled group, calling themselves ‘Hardap Swapo Petitioners’, called for the hearing through their lawyer in order to have the outcomes of Hardap district elections nullified.
The group recently threatened to approach the High Court to nullify the outcomes of regional elections, which they claimed were irregular and unconstitutional, if the party failed to comply with their demand for a petition hearing.
“It goes without saying that the November elective congress will be affected in the absence of remedial action on (sic) the irregular Hardap Swapo district and regional elections.
“If that happens, we should not be blamed. The senior leaders must take the blame,” the group’s spokesperson, Nico Mugenga, stated earlier this month, while threatening to file a lawsuit against Swapo over alleged election rigging.
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