ANC no letters.jpg Office of the ANC Chief Whip, 17 May 2016 EFF's Court Case Seeking Right to Disrupt Parliament Dismissed The Office of the ANC Chief Whip welcomes the decision of the Western Cape High Court yesterday to struck off the roll the EFF case to interdict the Speaker of the National Assembly from instructing the removal of EFF MPs at today's sitting should such become necessary in terms of the rules. There is no doubt that the EFF's urgent interdict was frivolous, as it essentially sought to ask the Court to grant them the carte blanche right to disrupt this afternoon's sitting scheduled for oral questions to the President. Through this case, the EFF attempted to cajole the judiciary into being party to its unconstitutional and silly decision not to recognise the office of the President. Indeed our judiciary ought to remain guarded at all times against attempts by some parties to exploit the courts in their attempts to erode democratic institutions. We welcome the decision of the Court as it once again affirms the right of Parliament to determine its own conventions, procedures and proceedings, in terms of the Constitution, without interference, consistent with the doctrine of separation of powers. In terms of the principle of rotation regarding oral questions to the President, the EFF is one of the parties not scheduled to partake in this afternoon's session. Despite this, the EFF wants to disrupt the sitting and deny other parties and Parliament their constitutional function to hold the head of the executive to account. Issued by: The Office of the ANC Chief Whip Enquiries: Moloto Mothapo, 082 370 6930 -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
