Namibia: Election Court Challenge

25 November 2014

Windhoek — The opposition party's urgent application to postpone the 2014 Presidential and National Assembly elections could be dismissed because some of the respondents were not served with court summonses. The Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP), African Labour and Human Rights Centre and its Director August Maletzky, and the President of the Workers Revolutionary Party Hewat Beukes launched an urgent application in the High Court on Monday, calling for the postponement of the general elections to February 2015.

The application was heard before Judge Christi Liebenberg in the Windhoek High Court here on Tuesday.

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