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The National Assembly (NA) Speaker, Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, has welcomed the Western Cape High Court\u2019s ruling striking off the roll the African Transformation Movement\u2019s (ATM) application to have a secret ballot in the motion of no confidence against the President.<\/p>\n
The court decision follows ATM urgent application requesting for a closed vote on the motion.<\/p>\n
The Speaker had previously declined on two occasions, after considering the guidance contained in the 2017 Constitutional Court Judgment, in the case between the United Democratic Movement vs Speaker of the National Assembly and others.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Parliamentary spokesperson, Moloto Mothapo, said in its letter dated 11 February 2022, the ATM had requested the Speaker to reconsider its request following the ruling of the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) in December 2021.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe SCA, in December 2021, set aside the Western Cape High Court judgement that upheld the Speaker\u2019s decision not to grant secret ballot to the ATM.\u00a0 The SCA found that the Speaker erred in placing an onus on the ATM to prove that the prevailing circumstances justified that a secret ballot procedure was warranted,\u201d Mothapo said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
After carefully considering anew the issues raised in the ATM\u2019s letters, dated 07 December 2021 and 11 February 2022, Mothapo added that the Speaker declined the ATM\u2019s request on 16 February 2022.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe ATM replied to the Speaker\u2019s decision on 25 February 2022, asking her to \u2018review\u2019 her own decision. The Speaker duly responded on 09 March 2022, affirming her decision of 16 February. The ATM, on 14 March, took the Speaker\u2019s decision to court for review,\u201d Mothapo explained.<\/p>\n
Mapisa-Nqakula welcomes court\u2019s ruling, saying it confirms Parliament\u2019s viewpoint that the urgency on the matter was self-created on the part of the ATM.<\/p>\n
During court proceedings on Monday, the Speaker argued that the ATM was aware of her decision not to accede to its request to hold the vote in the motion of no confidence in the President utilising secret ballot since 16 February 2022.<\/p>\n
She contented that the ATM had sufficient time to approach the courts from when that decision was communicated to it. Instead, the party elected to ask the Speaker to review her own decision and only approached the court more than three weeks after the decision was communicated.<\/p>\n
The Speaker also disagreed with the ATM\u2019s contention that her refusal to \u201creview\u201d her decision amounts to a fresh decision entitled to be reviewed by the court, as it affects the earlier decision of 16 February 2022.<\/p>\n
\u00a0The debate on motion of no confidence is scheduled for 30 March 2022 at 2pm in the National Assembly. \u2013\u00a0SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The National Assembly (NA) Speaker, Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, has welcomed the Western Cape High Court\u2019s ruling striking off the roll the African Transformation Movement\u2019s (ATM) application to have a secret ballot in the motion of no confidence against the President. The court decision follows ATM urgent application requesting for a closed vote on the motion. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65075,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[3066,3745,8130,8515,8513,1221],"class_list":["post-65074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-confidence","tag-courts","tag-decision","tag-motion","tag-speaker","tag-welcomes"],"yoast_head":"\n
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