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Body checks ANC nominations
28/11/2007 07:49 - (SA)
Johannesburg - An ANC-appointed electoral commission was hard at work on Tuesday validating the provincial nominations of candidates for election to the party's national executive committee.
It was not known how long this process would take, ANC spokesperson Tiyani Rikhotso said, adding that the commission had received all nominations and that it was "busy" with the validating process.
"So far it's still in their hands. It is a process of the electoral commission," he said.
Rikhotso said each province and the ANC's youth and women's leagues had nominated their choice for not only president, deputy president, national chairperson, secretary general, deputy secretary general and treasurer but also for their choice for the 60 additional National Executive Committee members.
Once the process and the candidates had been validated, the electoral commission would approach the individual candidates to establish whether they declined or accepted the nominations.
The outcome of this process would then be taken back to the provinces and the leagues - regarded as provinces in the election process.
Rikhotso said he was sure that once the party had been notified of the outcome of the provincial voting it would make the findings public.
"I'm sure we will, we have no reason not to," he said.
Rikhotso said delegates at the National Conference in Limpopo in December would be allowed "once more" to nominate members for the NEC from the floor.
Nominees needed to be supported by 25% of voting delegates.
He said a ballot paper would then be drawn up with the nominations from the provinces and from the floor.
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