EFF heads to ConCourt to challenge Ramaphosa impeachment ruling
The EFF has filed a direct appeal to the Constitutional Court to challenge the interdict granted to President Cyril Ramaphosa, which halted Parliament's Section 89 impeachment proceedings.
On Friday, the Western Cape High Court temporarily suspended the work of the committee looking into the president's conduct in the aftermath of the burglary at his Phala Phala farm.
The EFF believes party the majority judgment of the High Court is fundamentally flawed and ought to be overturned.
"The High Court improperly interfered with Parliament’s constitutional functions by stopping a process that Parliament is constitutionally empowered to conduct," the party said in a statement on Tuesday.
"Section 89 of the Constitution entrusts Parliament with the responsibility to establish whether circumstances exist that may justify the removal of a president from office,"
"Therefore, the judiciary cannot undermine Parliament’s constitutional role by halting an inquiry before it has reached any conclusion.”
The EFF said it is in the interests of justice for the Constitutional Court to intervene urgently and determine the matter directly, rather than allowing a constitutional accountability process to remain suspended through prolonged litigation in the ordinary appellate process.
President Ramaphosa's review application is scheduled to be heard in September.
