THE Supreme Court's judgement on the legal challenge to the conduct of Namibia's National Assembly election late last year, will be delivered this morning.

This was announced from the office of Chief Justice Peter Shivute late on Thursday.

The delivery of the court's judgement is scheduled to start at 10h00.

Five judges of the Supreme Court reserved their judgement on the election challenge on June 1, after having heard two days of arguments on the matter.

The appeal before the country's highest court stems from an attempt by nine opposition parties to get the High Court to set aside the National Assembly election that was held on November 27 and 28 last year, or to order a recount of votes cast in the election.

The parties' case was struck from the court roll in the High Court on March 4.

That was after Judge President Petrus Damaseb and Judge Collins Parker found that, in terms of the High Court rules, the election application had been filed with the High Court 90 minutes late on January 4.

In the two judgements that the court delivered in the matter, the two judges did not deal with the merits of the parties' challenge to the polls.

The parties alleged irregularities with the elections, such as confusion over which voters' roll was used, and the failure to post results at each polling station where votes had been cast, had opened the door for possible poll rigging.